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

Title

Nissaya manuscript fragments

Other related names

• Caddhaguman, scribe
• Suvaññasācca, associated name

Call number

Penn Museum 51-9-1 51-9-1
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962901983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6290198

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Pali and Northern Thai

Summary

Collection of leaves from 2 different manuscripts: 28 leaves of a Nissaya text on grammar, divided into eight parts (51-9-1.1), with an associated name, Suvaññasācca; and 23 leaves of another Nissaya text, possibly written by a novice named Caddhaguman (51-9-1.2).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 16, 2015)
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• Written on palm leaves; leaves from one manuscript edged in red lacquer (51-9-1.1).
   
• Foliated with letters of the Lanna alphabet, ga to ngu (51-9-1.1), and ga to kho (51-9-1.2), verso left margin.
   
• One manuscript possibly written in 1143 BE (1786) (colophon, 51-9-1.2); other manuscript undated (51-9-1.1).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 5 x 55.5 cm (51-9-1.1); 6 x 58.8 cm (51-9-1.2)
   
• 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 (51 folios) :

Support

Color illustrations.

Provenance

• Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler, 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Pali language--Grammar

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Thai--18th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Nissaya text on grammar, f. 1r
• fol. 28v — End of first Nissaya manuscript, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Second Nissaya manuscript, f.29r

Decorations

• fol. 50v-51r — Broken leaf, f. 51