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

Title

Thai astrological and 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 9
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963217763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898216626
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6321776

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In 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).
   

Extent

1 item (52 folios) : 11.5 x 34.5 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

• Astrology, Thai
• Medicine, Thai

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 15r — End of reverse-direction text, f. 15r
• fol. 23r — Cancellation, f. 23r
• fol. 26r (upper) — Beginning of reverse-direction text, f. 26r
• fol. 23v — Cancellation, f. 23v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ink sketches of animals, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Two figures, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Two figures, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Two figures, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Two figures, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Two figures, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Two figures, floating head, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — One figure, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — One figure, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — One figure, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — One figure, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — One figure, f. 12r
• fol. 13r — One figure, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — One figure, f. 14r
• fol. 26v — Gold-leaf circle, f. 26v