Magga 1820s-1840s

Date:

1820

Description:

The more formal text (in yellow ink) includes a first-person account of a minor noble, his family, and his estate with reference to rituals performed at his home. Additional notes have been added in chalk by multiple hands, including a sermon on the path and accounts or calculations. Many pages have notes that are casually written and difficult to read.

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), 2003.

Subject:

Buddhism -- Rituals; Buddhist sermons, Thai

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Folded books; Sermons; Manuscripts, Thai; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 folios) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on December 8, 2015); Written in 4 lines per segment.; Written on black khoi paper, in yellow ink and white chalk; folded concertina- or accordion-style.; Attached upper cover with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper; lower cover is missing.; Written in south central Thailand (paper origin) between the 1820s and 1840s (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 11.5 x 35 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 Thai (Thai).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 2003-42-7

Collection:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts