Details

Subjects:

Epic poetry, Thai.

Form/Genre:

folded books.
epics.
Poetry.
Manuscripts, Thai.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Thai.

Summary:

Digital facsimile of Book 6 of an epic poem of love and adventure.

Notes:

Title from the beginning of the verso side (f. B01).
Written in 8 lines per folio.
Possibly written as early as 1822, probably written between 1828 and 1830 (Justin McDaniel).
Folios are black charcoal khoi paper, with yellow cobalt script and some corrections in chalk; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
Covers with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper.

Penn Provenance:

Possibly formerly in the collection of Wat Thepdhitaram if written while the author was in the monastery there (Justin McDaniel).
Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2992) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.
Returned to the Penn Museum, 2022.

Cited as:

Sunthō̜n Phū, Phra ʻAphaimanī, Book 6 (Penn Museum 97-122-248). Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Godon, Victor L., former owner.
American Philosophical Society, former owner.

OCLC:

865505681