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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961955783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6195578

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript fragment with one illuminated folio, with two halves of text folios on the verso.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 15, 2015).
   
• Written in 10 lines per folio.
   
• Khoi paper with text in black; originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but now the illuminated folio is housed open and flat.
   
• Manuscript illustrated with images of Rama and Sita.
   
• Probably written and illustrated in the 1820s or 1830s, based on the use of only four colors (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.2 x 62.5 cm (folded), 25.5 x 62.5 cm (unfolded).
   
• Tape or paper glued to hinge and edges on verso.
   
• 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

Support

Provenance

• Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens
• Rāma (Hindu deity)--Art
• Sītā (Hindu deity)--Art

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Fragments (object portions)
• Folded books
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Penn Museum 89-13-334 89-13-334: Illuminated Thai manuscript fragment are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• A01 — Rama and Sita?, f. A01 left
• A01 — Rama embracing Sita, f. A01 right