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Title

Medicine man's pocket notebook

Call number

Ms. Coll. 990 Item 19
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976890483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/988027397
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dz03g3b

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Origin

Date

circa 1700-1850

Summary

Manuscript is small pocket notebook by a sei-saya (medicine man). It contains spells using mantras (words and phrases of power); inn (cabalistic squares and figures) associated with the occult sciences to protect against vulnerability from evil spirits, firearms, and weapons; riddles and formulas concerning alchemy; and calculations for directions of the head of a serpent (naga) by astrology so that one could avoid aliments and catastrophic accidents. Contains remedies from plants and astrological calculations for healing. There are drawings of figures and animals, tables, and diagrams throughout.

Notes

• Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2967.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Manuscript was folded six to eight times to create a portable pocket notebook.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• 21 leaves.
   

Extent

1 item (21 leaves) : 33 x 51 cm

Support

Paper

Subjects topical

• Magic
• Buddhist mantras
• Buddhist mantras
• Medicine, Burmese
• Medicine, Burmese
• Medicine--Burma
• Medicine
• Magic--Burma
• Burma

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Drawings (visual works)
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Burmese
• Manuscripts, Burmese
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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