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

Title

Elementary lesson book

Other related names

• Bradley, E. R. 1811-1845, associated name
• Jones, Eliza A. Royce, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 29-170-11 29-170-11
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961963583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6196358

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Thai, with notes in English

Summary

Collection of word lists and three reading lessons, with later brief annotations in English about the manufacture of the book (note inside upper cover) and the content of the lessons.

Notes

• Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on December 15, 2015).
   
• Written in 8 lines per folio.
   
• Black bark paper with text in yellow ink and later English annotations in white ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
   
• Paper covers with borders formed of additional layers of heavy paper and titles written in faded yellow ink.
   
• Written before 1845 (date of death of Emelie Royce Bradley).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 10.3 x 33.1 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 (58 folios)

Provenance

• Gift of Emilie Royce Bradley (a missionary in Siam, wife of missionary Daniel Beach Bradley) to Eliza A. Royce (note on upper cover), before Emilie Royce Bradley's death in 1845.
   
• Gift of Eliza A.R. Jones to her stepson M. Jones, 1852 (pencil note, f. B20, in blank folios after end of text).
   
• Accessioned at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1929.
   

Subjects topical

• Thai language--Study and teaching

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Upper cover — Title, Upper cover
• Upper cover — Gift inscription in English, white ink, Upper cover
• A01 — Owner note in English, f. A01
• A01 — A part of the table with the final B pronounced P, f. A01
• A05 — A reading lesson in verse ..., f. A05
• A07 — Syllables with the final M, f. A07
• A16 — A reading lesson, f. A15
• A18 — Table of syllables containing diphthongs, tripthongs, etc. f., A18
• A28 — Owner note in English, white ink, f. A28 lower
• Lower cover — Title, Lower cover
• B05 — A reading lesson, f. B05
• B08 — End of Thai text, f. B08
• B20 — Second gift inscription, in pencil, 1852, f. B20
• B24 — Owner note, f. B24