Thai medical manuscript, between 1930 and 1969

Contributor:

Bekker, Konrad (died 1981); Bekker, Sarah M. (died 2013)

Date:

1930

Description:

Illustrated manuscript concerning medical cases and extended treatments. Later notes added in pencil throughout and in blue and pink pencil at end (f. B24-B25).

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

Sold to Konrad and Sarah M. Bekker in the 1950s or 1960s; Konrad Bekker worked for the State Department in Asia and Sarah Bekker was an art historian.; Sold from the estate of Konrad and Sarah M. Bekker at auction at Sloans & Kenyon, 14-16 June 2013, part of lot 467.

Subject:

Medicine, Thai

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

folded books; drawings (visual works); diagrams; Manuscripts, Thai; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (52 folios) : paper, illustrations; 12 x 35.5 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Written in 10 lines per folio.; Written in Thailand between the 1930s and 1960s (Justin McDaniel).; Khoi paper; folded concertina- or accordion-style; upper cover only, plain paper.; illustrated folios with line drawings in ink of bodies (f. A01, A03, A04, A08, A10, A12, A14, A24) and deities or monsters (f. A17-A23); a few small diagrams in text (f. B07).; In Laotian-influenced Thai (Thai).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 10

Collection:

Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts