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

Title

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962731143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6273114

Publisher

Summary

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing a monk removing pamsakulla cloth from a corpse, probably a scene of corpse observation and meditation. Another small illumination of a monster and text in unidentified script on verso.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 17, 2015)
   
• Written in 5 lines per segment.
   
• Written on khoi paper; from manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
   
• Painted in the early 19th century (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 22.5 x 19.4 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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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
• Buddhist monks--Pictorial works
• Death--Religious aspects--Buddhism

Genres

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

Licenses

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