Nissaya text 1700s?

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Nissaya text, liturgical, possibly the praise of the 28 Buddhas. Three leaves have modern corrections in black marker.

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:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 leaves) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 30, 2015); Written in 5 lines per leaf.; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes slightly more than 22 cm apart; formerly tied through right hole; red lacquer top and bottom edges, gilded left and right edges; most ends frayed and damaged; Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 5 x 58.5 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 51-9-6