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

Title

Other related names

• Lyons, Elizabeth, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961955123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6195512

Publisher

Language

Summary

Illuminated folio from a Phra Malai manuscript, with two halves of text folios on the verso.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 15, 2015).
   
• Written in 10 lines per folio.
   
• Khoi paper with text in black; originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but now the illuminated folio is housed open and flat.
   
• Manuscript illustrated with images of Indra and devis, most with blank faces.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.0 x 63.4 cm (folded), 23.5 x 63.4 cm (unfolded).
   
• Tape or paper glued to hinge on verso and tape or paper and a very small piece of another illuminated manuscript glued to the edges of the verso for support.
   
• 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

Support

Provenance

• Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Penn Museum 89-13-333 89-13-333: Fragment from Phra Malai are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• A01 — Indra and Julamani Stupa, f. A01 left
• A01 — Devas and musicians, f. A01 right