Illuminated fragment of Phra Malai between 1890 and 1925?

Date:

1890

Description:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing the demon Punnaka and twirling Vidhura in the air. Details and background color damaged by abrasion. Text from Phra Malai on verso, abraded and difficult to read.

Language:

Thai

Provenance:

Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.

Subject:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens; Jataka stories, Thai -- Pictorial works; Jataka stories, Thai; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Fragments (object portions); Folded books; Illuminations (visual works); Manuscripts, Thai; Manuscripts; Illustrated works; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 folio) : color illustrations

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015); Written in 5 lines per segment.; Written and painted on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.; Written and painted in central Thailand in the very late 19th or early 20th century (Justin McDaniel).; From same manuscript as Penn Museum 89-13-327.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 26 x 21.7 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 (Khom).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-328