Horoscope manuscript fragment, before 1837

Contributor:

American Philosophical Society (former owner)

Date:

1837

Description:

Fragment of a horoscope manuscript that describes personal qualities, physical aspects, and time of death.

Language:

Thai

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 upper cover), number L-122-249 (number in ink on note and upper cover).; Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2990) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.; Returned to the Penn Museum, 2022.; Godon, Victor L., former owner.

Subject:

Astrology, Thai; Horoscopes -- Thailand; Horoscopes

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

fragments (object portions); treatises; Manuscripts, Thai; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : palm leaf; 5.7 x 36.8 cm + 1 note

Geographic Subject:

Thailand

Rights:

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

Notes:

Written in 5 lines per leaf.; 9 leaves, the first a cover, versos foliated with payanchanas, kho through khuu (alphabetical ordering system, from the middle of an alphabetical sequence).; Written before 1837 (date of later note).; Folios have a central hole.; In Thai with some words in Sanskrit and Pali (Central Thai)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 87-43-150