Illumination from Thai manuscript between 1825 and 1875

Date:

1825

Description:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, probably showing a hunter picking lotus flowers in a pond to give to Phra Malai. Text on verso.

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; from manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is now stored flat.; Written and painted in Thailand in the mid-19th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 23 x 21 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 Thai (Khom).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-417