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

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Alternate identifiers

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

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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.
   

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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

• Text

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Table of contents

• A07 — Lower half of folio missing, f. A07