Narrative text, possibly multiple stories, including a bodhisattva, a brahman, a woman (named Pumala?), and animals. A colophon in Thai language and Central Thai script asks readers not to chasten or admonish the writer.
Language:
Thai
Provenance:
Gift of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1984.
Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on September 29, 2015); Written in 5 lines per segment.; Foliated in verso left margin, with letters beginning with A but not in order: A, AA, gong, gan, gu.; Written by a single hand, by a scribe probably Chinese or from Yuan, as the text contains a number of foreign or unusual words; scribe possibly named Nemirang, Nemilang, or Nemiranna (Justin McDaniel).; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 18 cm apart and a cord through the left hole; gilt edges with lacquer in the center of the top and bottom edges.; Possibly written between 1750 and 1850 (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.8 x 55 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 Northern Thai with some Pali and Thai (Northern Thai, Lanna; Central Thai).
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 84-24-1
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