Vohara text 1700s?

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Vohara text describing the deeds of great people; includes a relic history.

Language:

Pali

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, Pali -- Early works to 1800; Buddhist literature, Pali

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Sermons; Commentaries; Histories; Manuscripts, Pali; Manuscripts, Thai; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19 folios) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on October 21, 2015); Written in 4 lines per leaf.; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 17 cm apart; tied through the left hole; some leaves partial, some edges damaged.; Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.7 x 52.5 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 Pali (Lanna).

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts