Illuminated fragment of Phra Malai between 1875 and 1899?

Alternate Title:

Phra Malai

Date:

1875

Description:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript showing Indra listening to a sermon by Phra Malai. Phra Malai's face has been rubbed away. On the verso is text from the Phra Malai.

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Buddhist monks; Buddhist monks -- Pictorial works; Indra (Hindu deity) Pictorial works; Indra (Hindu deity)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Pictorial works; Facsimiles; Fragments (object portions); Folded books; Illuminations (visual works); Manuscripts, Thai; Manuscripts; Illustrated works

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 folio) : colored illustration

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015); Written in 5 lines per segment.; Written on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.; Written and painted in central Siam in the late 19th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.2 x 19.7 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.; Thai (Khom).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-414