Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963213923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6321392

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Summary

Vohara text on the episode of the Vessantara Jataka story in which Vessantara gives away his children.

Notes

• Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015)
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• Foliated with letters, sa through sai, verso left margin; 4 leaves from the J's in the middle, out of order, but from the same text.
   
• Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes slightly more than 20 cm apart; many edges frayed or damaged; last leaf partial; red lacquer edges; string through left hole tied in a loop.
   
• Written in Thailand, possibly in the late 17th century.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.5 x 53.5 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.
   

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Provenance

• Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (nurse and wife of Presbyterian medical missionary W. H. Kneedler), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Jataka stories, Thai--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Sermons
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Thai--17th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--17th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 18r — Leaf fragment, f.18