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

Title

Phra ʻAphaimanī.
พระอภัยมณี

Authors

• Sunthō̜n Phū, 1786-1855

Other related names

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

Call number

Penn Museum 97-122-248
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Web)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960730973503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865505552
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3db7vs7v

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Origin

Date

1828-1830?

Summary

Digital facsimile of Book 6 of an epic poem of love and adventure.

Notes

• Written in 8 lines per folio.
   
• Covers with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper.
   
• Title from the beginning of the verso side (f. B01).
   
• Folios are black charcoal khoi paper, with yellow cobalt script and some corrections in chalk; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers.
   
• Possibly written as early as 1822, probably written between 1828 and 1830 (Justin McDaniel).
   

Extent

1 item (57 folios) : 11 x 34 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 the 1830s (note in ink on an APS notecard, dated 17 November 1837, tied to f. 1).
   
• Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2992) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.
   
• Returned to the Penn Museum, 2022.
   
• Possibly formerly in the collection of Wat Thepdhitaram if written while the author was in the monastery there (Justin McDaniel).
   

Subjects topical

• Epic poetry, Thai
• Epic poetry, Thai

Genres

• folded books
• Poetry
• epics
• Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Thai

Licenses

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Table of contents

• A01 — Title, f. A01 lower
• A28 — Note, upside down in white chalk, f. A28 upper
• B01 — Title, f. B01 lower
• B29 — Text, upside down, f. B29 upper