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

Title

Lao manuscript

Call number

Penn Museum 82-7-54 82-7-54
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963137343503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6313734

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Lao

Summary

18th-century manuscript from northeast Thailand. Accompanied by a modern printed tag in Thai from the Fine Arts Department certifying permission for the manuscript to leave Thailand.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 10, 2015)
   
• Written in 4 lines per leaf.
   
• Unusually foliated with a combination of letters and numerals.
   
• Written by a poorly trained scribe, lacking tone marks (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Leaves of palm leaf, many damaged, with four holes, two central ones approximately 17.5 cm apart and two at the left and right margins; lacquered edges.
   
• Wooden covers with a cord tied through the two center holes; writing in old Lao inside the lower cover.
   
• Possibly written in the 1780s (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 4 x 56.4 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 (101 folios) :

Support

Color illustrations.

Provenance

• Purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1982.
   

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Lao--18th century
• Manuscripts, Thai--18th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Title page, f. 1v