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

Title

Phra Malai

Other related names

• Daeng, Phrayā, patron
• Nang Rot, associated name
• Luang Lu, Phrayā, dedicatee
• Kohler, William, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 77-5-5 77-5-5
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961345143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6134514

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Summary

The popular story of Phra Malai, a monk who visits heaven and hell.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 16, 2015).
   
• Written in 12 lines per illustrated folio, 10 lines per text folio.
   
• White samut khoi paper with writing in black; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
   
• Manuscript illustrated with images from the jatakas.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 14 x 66.5 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.
   

Extent

1 online resource (92 folios) :

Support

Color illustrations.

Provenance

• Name of the patron sponsoring the manuscript, Phrayā Daeng, and his wife and son Chant, written in the manuscript; a woman's name (Nang Rot) in the margin may be the name of the wife or of another woman; the manuscript is dedicated to Phrayā Luang Lu.
   
• Gift of William Kohler, 1977.
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens
• Heaven--Buddhism
• Hell--Buddhism

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Folded books
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• B46 — Colophon, Thai, f. B46 upper

Decorations

• A01 — Jataka, Temiya holding a chariot, f. A01 left
• A01 — Jataka, Surprised charioteer, f. A01 right
• A05 — Jataka, Mahajanaka, shipwrecked foreigners in water, f. A05 left
• A05 — Jataka, Mahajanaka rescured by Manimekhala, f. A05 right
• A25 — Jataka, Suvannasama, shot with an arrow, f. A25 left
• A25 — Jataka, Suvannasama, King Piliyakkha with bow, f. A25 right
• A39 — Avici hell scene, f. A39 left
• A39 — Jataka, Nemi, Natali takes Nemi to see the hells, f. A39 right
• B11 — Jataka, Mahasaddha, oxen, f. B11 left
• B11 — Jataka, Mahasaddha, f. B11 right
• B12 — Jataka, Bhuridatta, snake form, f. B12 left
• B12 — Jataka, Bhuridatta (or Alambayana and hunter?), f. B12 right
• B27 — Jataka, Candakumara, Indra interrupting ceremony, f. B27 left
• B27 — Jataka, Candakumara, people attacking Brahmins of ceremony, f. B27 right
• B28 — Jataka, Narada, flying demonstration, visits Princess Ruca, f. B28 left
• B28 — Jataka, Narada, Princess Ruca teaching laypeople importance of Karma, f. B28 right
• B41 — Jataka, Vidhura, holding onto horse tail, Yakka (Yaksha) Punnaka mounted on horse, f. B41 left
• B41 — Jataka, Vidhura, giving sermon to Yakka (Yaksha) Punnaka, f. B41 right
• B45 — Jataka, Vessantara, giving away children, f. B45 left
• B45 — Jataka, Vessantara, Jujaka the lecherous Brahmin, f. B45 right