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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963138593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6313859

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Summary

Narrative text, possibly multiple stories, including a bodhisattva, a brahman, a woman (named Pumala?), and animals. A colophon in Thai language and Central Thai script asks readers not to chasten or admonish the writer.

Notes

• Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 29, 2015)
   
• Written in 5 lines per segment.
   
• Foliated in verso left margin, with letters beginning with A but not in order: A, AA, gong, gan, gu.
   
• Written by a single hand, by a scribe probably Chinese or from Yuan, as the text contains a number of foreign or unusual words; scribe possibly named Nemirang, Nemilang, or Nemiranna (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 18 cm apart and a cord through the left hole; gilt edges with lacquer in the center of the top and bottom edges.
   
• Possibly written between 1750 and 1850 (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.8 x 55 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 Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1984.
   

Subjects topical

• Buddhist stories, Thai

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Thai--18th century
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--18th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title page, f. 1r
• fol. 12v-13r — Colophon, in Central Thai, f. 13r
• fol. 13v-14r — Duplicate title page, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Pencil annotation, f. 14v