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

Title

Royal decrees

Authors

• Siam

Other related names

• Godon, Victor L, former owner
• American Philosophical Society, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2991
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960730943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865505395
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6073094

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Summary

Nangseu (document) from a member of the Chakrit family, the main royal family of Siam, to regional leaders regarding the migration of ethnic groups to the capital, Bangkok. The first document mentions renovation work to be completed on the royal temple, Wat Pho (Wat Phrachētuphon). The documents are dated 1831 and 1835, except for one document with an illegible date. Written quickly in shorthand, probably from dictation, possibly by a royal scribe.

Notes

• Written in 6 lines per folio.
   
• 9 folios on the front and all on the back are blank.
   
• Written between 1835 (latest date included) and 1837 (date of note attached to manuscript).
   
• Folios are black charcoal khoi paper, with white chalk script; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
   
• Covers with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper; lower cover detached.
   

Extent

1 item (56 folios) : 10.5 x 33 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Possibly formerly owned by Victor L. Godon, who served as a midshipman and surgeon in the United States Navy in the Pacific, and given by Godon to the American Philosophical Society in 1837 (note in ink, dated 17 November 1837, on fragment of an APS notecard, tied to the upper cover), number L-122-247 (note in ink on notecard).
   

Subjects topical

• Wat Phrachētuphon (Bangkok, Thailand)

Genres

• Folded books
• Decrees
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Upper cover — Ownership notes, Upper cover
• A01 — First text, f. A01 lower
• A04 — Second text, f. A04 upper
• A07 — Third text, f. A07 upper
• A10 — Fourth text, f. A10 upper
• A15 — Fifth text, f. A15 upper
• A18 — End of texts, f. A18 lower