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

Title

Tamra mueang Takkasila :

Other related names

• Thompson, James B., 1860-1898, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 990 Item 27 Item 27
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979363021503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1424867082

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai and Pali

Origin

Place

Thailand?, before 1898

Summary

Medical treatise describing illnesses, cures, and medicines. Its prologue refers to an epidemic in the city of Taxila (in modern Pakistan), ended by the power of a hermit who reveals the knowlege of healing. Illustrations of skin illnesses and medical diagrams of human figures on the verso (Peera Panarut).

Notes

• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• Probably written in the late 19th century (before the death of former owner James B. Thompson).
   
• Folios grey, with black ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
   
• Covers with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper.
   
• A detailed description of this manuscript by Dr. Peera Panarut is on file at the library.
   

Extent

1 item (78 segments) : 12 x 34 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by James B. Thompson (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1886; Protestant missionary in Thailand; stamp on upper cover and inside lower cover).
   
• Gift of James B. Thompson, probably 1899 (date of gift for Ms. Coll. 990, Item 31, also from Thompson).
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine, Thai

Genres

• accordion books
• diagrams
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r-2r — Tamra meuang Takkasila

Decorations

• fol. 3v-4v — Amulet-style designs
• fol. 5v-6v — Medical illustrations and human figure diagrams
• fol. 7v-8v — Human figure diagrams
• fol. 9v-10v — Human figure diagrams
• fol. 11v-12v — Human figure diagrams