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

Penn Museum 2003-42-13 2003-42-13 Raksa

Title

Raksa

Call number

Penn Museum 2003-42-13 2003-42-13
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9963325803503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6332580

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Summary

A protective text (raksa) in verse giving instructions on warding off various ills, followed by instructions related to entry into monastic life. The manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 10, 2015)
Written in 4 lines per segment.
Written on black khoi paper in yellow ink and chalk (Khmer script); folded concertina- or accordion-style.
Upper cover attached, plain, with title; lower cover missing.
Probably written in the 1880s (Justin McDaniel).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 11.5 x 35.4 cm.
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

1 online resource (14 folios) :

Support

Color illustrations.

Provenance

Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), 2003.

Subjects topical

Buddhist magic
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism)

Genres

Facsimiles
Folded books
Poems
Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

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