Illuminated Thai manuscript fragment 1850s or 1860s?

Date:

1850s

Description:

Manuscript fragment with one illuminated folio (half of a text folio and half blank on the verso) and text from the Abhidhamma.

Language:

Pali

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; 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 two devis.; Probably written and illustrated in the 1850s or 1860s, based on the illumination colors and thin Mul script (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 12.2 x 62.5 cm (folded), 25.5 x 62.5 cm (unfolded).; Tape or paper glued to hinge and edges on verso.; 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.; Pali (Khmer Mul).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-335

Collection:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts