Details

Subjects:

Buddhist literature, Pali -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist literature, Thai -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist literature, Thai.
Buddhist literature, Pali.

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles.
Commentaries.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Pali -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.

Language:

In Northern Thai and Pali (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web
text file

Summary:

Pedagogical monastic work of Northern Thai commentary on a limited amount of Pali text. A complete text (two puks) but with some broken leaves (f. 16, f. 18, pieces stitched together)..

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on December 22, 2015)
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
Written on leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 18 cm apart and red lacquered edges.
Written in Thailand in the late 18th century (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 5.2 x 55 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2015.

Penn Provenance:

Written at the Wat Mansikam temple by Phra Gīnamgalajao or Phra Ginajao.
Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (Christina Butler Harris Kneedler, former Presbyterian medical missionary in Thailand with her husband, William Harding Kneedler), 1951.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 51-9-4.

Contributor:

Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.