Details

Subjects:

Astrology, Thai.
Medicine, Thai.

Form/Genre:

Folded books.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Digital.

Language:

In Thai (Thai).

Summary:

Illustrated manuscript concerning illness, healing, and the relation of time to different parts of the body, perhaps a field manual for healers. Side A is in two sections written from each end towards the middle: a series of diagrams annotated by multiple hands (f. 1r-14r) and a text (f. 26r-15r). Side B (f. 1v-26v) is all text, beginning from where the upper cover would be. Text includes both horosat and tamrat texts.

Notes:

Written in 7 lines per segment on text folios.
Probably written in upper central Thailand in the 1920s or 1930s (Justin McDaniel).
Khoi paper; folded concertina- or accordion-style; no covers.
14 illustrated folios with line drawings of dancers (f. 2r-14r) and a group of studies in ink and pencil of small animals in motion (f.1r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold to Konrad and Sarah M. Bekker in the 1950s or 1960s; Konrad Bekker worked for the State Department in Asia and Sarah Bekker was an art historian.
Sold from the estate of Konrad and Sarah M. Bekker at auction at Sloans & Kenyon, 14-16 June 2013, part of lot 467.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 990, Item 9

Contributor:

Bekker, Konrad, died 1981, former owner.
Bekker, Sarah M., died 2013, former owner.

OCLC:

898216627