Vohara manuscript 1740s

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1740

Description:

Pedagogical Buddhist text with long passages of liturgical Pali and commentary in Northern Thai, possibly written by a novice or former novice named Ruan and probably used for sermons.

Language:

Pali

Provenance:

Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (Christina Butler Harris Kneedler, former Presbyterian medical missionary in Thailand with her husband, William Harding Kneedler), 1951.; Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.

Subject:

Buddhist literature, Pali -- Early works to 1800; Buddhist literature, Thai -- Early works to 1800; Buddhist literature, Thai; Buddhist literature, Pali

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Commentaries; Sermons; Manuscripts, Pali; Manuscripts, Thai; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 folios) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 16, 2015); Written in 4-6 lines per leaf.; Foliated with numerals, 1-15.; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 16 cm apart; most leaves have some chipping or breaking around holes or along edges.; Probably written in the 1740s in Nan Province, Thailand (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 5.5 x 44.5 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 Northern Thai and Pali (Lanna).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 51-9-2