Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Thai medical manuscript

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Coll. 990 Item 10
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963219583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898217304
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6321958

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Laotian-influenced Thai

Summary

Illustrated manuscript concerning medical cases and extended treatments. Later notes added in pencil throughout and in blue and pink pencil at end (f. B24-B25).

Notes

• Written in 10 lines per folio.
   
• Written in Thailand between the 1930s and 1960s (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Khoi paper; folded concertina- or accordion-style; upper cover only, plain paper.
   
• illustrated folios with line drawings in ink of bodies (f. A01, A03, A04, A08, A10, A12, A14, A24) and deities or monsters (f. A17-A23); a few small diagrams in text (f. B07).
   

Extent

1 item (52 folios) : 12 x 35.5 cm

Support

Paper

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Thai

Genres

• Folded books
• Drawings (visual works)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Thai--20th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--20th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• A01 — Illustration, Three human figures, f. A01
• A03 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A03
• A04 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A04
• A08 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A08
• A10 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A10
• A12 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A12
• A14 — Illustration, Three figures, f. A14
• A17 — Illustration, Garuda with breasts on fish, f. A17
• A18 — Illustration, Singha and Garuda, f. A18
• A19 — Illustration, Female and Garuda with breasts, f. A19
• A20 — Illustration, Female with wings, elephant-headed female, f. A20
• A21 — Illustration, Bird-Singha female, Yaksa female, f. A21
• A22 — Illustration, Garuda-man, horse-headed female (?), f. A22
• A23 — Illustration, Female figure grasping hat, f. A23
• A24 — Illustration, Two figures with arms out, f. A24
• B08 — Diagrams, f. B08