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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976890443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/988027110
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35d8nv56

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1700-1850

Summary

Balinese palm leaf manuscript (lontar) displaying beautifully etched images with short associated text connected to the Balinese retelling of the Hindu epic the Rāmāyaṇa and having regional artistic and literary influences.

Notes

• Vertical margins and center hole marked with decorative etched border.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 6 leaves.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper right recto.
   
• Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2984.
   
• Palm leaves supported by wooden boards.
   

Extent

Support

Subjects topical

• Epic literature, Indic
• Epic literature, Indic
• Epic poetry, Balinese
• Epic poetry, Balinese

Genres

• Poems
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Balinese
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Balinese

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 990 Item 18: Balinese Rāmāyaṇa 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

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• Text

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  URL

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