Nāmasadda text 1700s?

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Pedagogical text with Pali words and translations and glosses in Thai about a wheel-turning king named Mahasudassana.

Language:

Thai

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Glossaries; Translations (documents); Manuscripts, Thai; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 leaves) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 16, 2015); Written in 4 lines per leaf.; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 16 cm apart, edges somewhat damaged.; Possibly written in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 3.8 x 45 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 and Pali (Lanna).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 51-9-3