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

Title

Other related names

• Godon, Victor L, former owner
• American Philosophical Society, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007046)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960730683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865505059
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3b56d71p

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

before 1837

Summary

Fragment of a horoscope manuscript that describes personal qualities, physical aspects, and time of death.

Notes

• Folios have a central hole.
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• Written before 1837 (date of later note).
   
• 9 leaves, the first a cover, versos foliated with payanchanas, kho through khuu (alphabetical ordering system, from the middle of an alphabetical sequence).
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2990) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.
   
• Returned to the Penn Museum, 2022.
   
• Possibly formerly owned by Victor L. Godon, who served as a midshipman and surgeon in the United States Navy in the Pacific, and given by Godon to the American Philosophical Society in the 1830s (note in ink on an APS notecard, dated 17 November 1837, tied to upper cover), number L-122-249 (number in ink on note and upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology, Thai
• Astrology, Thai
• Horoscopes--Thailand
• Horoscopes
• Thailand

Genres

• fragments (object portions)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Thai
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Upper cover — Later Western notes, Upper cover