Thai sample book : manuscript

Contributor:

Buell, William P. (compiler); Atkinson, William M. (William Mayo), 1796-1849 (addressee)

Date:

1840

Description:

Pedagogical manuscript compiled by the missionary William P. Buell for Presbyterian minister William M. Atkinson, including material on the Thai alphabet and combinations of Thai consonants and vowels (f. 4r-14r); Matthew 19:16-26 in Thai with spaces between words to assist a beginning reader (f. 18v-21v); and excerpts from Sunthon Phu’s verse travelogue Nirat Phra Bat (f. 46v-52v) and the epic poem Khun Chang Khun Phaen (f. 53v-55v), given as examples of Thai scribbled handwriting (tua wat), referred to by Buell in the manuscript as tua wat and shorthand (f. 45v). (Peera Panarut)

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

Compiled by William P. Buell for William M. Atkinson, Winchester, Virginia (note in yellow ink, f. 2r), not after 1844.; Gift of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia, 2020.

Subject:

Thai language -- Study and teaching; Thai language -- Writing; Missionaries -- Thailand

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

accordion books; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (56 segments) : paper; 11 x 35 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In Thai (Thai script), with notes in English.; Written in 4 lines per leaf.; Written between 1840 and 1844, the years that William Buell and Seignoria Buell were married missionaries in Thailand.; Folios black, with Thai and English text in yellow ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style.; A detailed description of this manuscript by Dr. Peera Panarut is on file at the library.; Some folds between segments are brittle; the fold between f. 10r and f. 11r is mostly broken.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 30

Collection:

Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts