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

Title

Royal decrees

Authors

• Siam

Other related names

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

Call number

Penn Museum 87-43-151
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Web)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960730943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865505395
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x921m92

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Origin

Date

before 1837

Summary

Digital facsimile of a nangseu (document) from a member of the Chakrit family, the main royal family of Siam, to regional leaders regarding the migration of ethnic groups to the capital, Bangkok. The first document mentions renovation work to be completed on the royal temple, Wat Pho (Wat Phrachētuphon). The documents are dated 1831 and 1835, except for one document with an illegible date. Written quickly in shorthand, probably from dictation, possibly by a royal scribe.

Notes

• Covers with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper; lower cover detached.
   
• Written in 6 lines per folio.
   
• 9 folios on the front and all on the back are blank.
   
• Written between 1835 (latest date included) and 1837 (date of note attached to manuscript).
   
• Folios are black charcoal khoi paper, with white chalk script; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
   

Extent

1 item (56 folios) : 10.5 x 33 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• 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 1837 (note in ink, dated 17 November 1837, on fragment of an APS notecard, tied to the upper cover), number L-122-247 (note in ink on notecard).
   
• Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2991) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.
   
• Returned to the Penn Libraries, 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Wat Phrachētuphon (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Wat Phrachētuphon (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Politics and government
• Thailand
• Thailand--Politics and government--1782-1945

Genres

• folded books
• decrees
• Manuscripts, Thai
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Upper cover — Ownership notes, Upper cover
• A01 — First text, f. A01 lower
• A04 — Second text, f. A04 upper
• A07 — Third text, f. A07 upper
• A10 — Fourth text, f. A10 upper
• A15 — Fifth text, f. A15 upper
• A18 — End of texts, f. A18 lower