Fragment from Phra Malai 1800s?

Alternate Title:

Phra Malai

Date:

1800s

Description:

Illuminated folio from a Phra Malai manuscript, with two halves of text folios on the verso.

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

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

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 folios) : colored illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on July 15, 2015).; Written in 10 lines per folio.; Khoi paper with text in black; originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but now the illuminated folio is housed open and flat.; Manuscript illustrated with images of Indra and devis, most with blank faces.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.0 x 63.4 cm (folded), 23.5 x 63.4 cm (unfolded).; Tape or paper glued to hinge on verso and tape or paper and a very small piece of another illuminated manuscript glued to the edges of the verso for support.; 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/Khmer).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-333

Collection:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts