Asubbhakammaţţhana illumination? between 1800 and 1825?
Date:
1800
Description:
Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing a monk removing pamsakulla cloth from a corpse, probably a scene of corpse observation and meditation. Another small illumination of a monster and text in unidentified script on verso.
Language:
Undetermined
Provenance:
Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.
Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 17, 2015); Written in 5 lines per segment.; Written on khoi paper; from manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.; Painted in the early 19th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 22.5 x 19.4 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.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-416
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