Illumination from Thai manuscript between 1875 and 1899?

Date:

1875

Description:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing two women, possibly nuns, kneeling in a devotional pose before a yellow background. On the verso is a modern copy of text from the Phra Malai. A small piece of the manuscript with yellow on one side and text on the other is pasted in the center of the right edge to reinforce the hinge. The upper right corner is slightly damaged.

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

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

Subject:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 folio) : color illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015); Written in 6 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: 28.3 x 17.5 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.; In modern Thai (text on verso).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-415