Thai manuscript fragments 1700s?

Contributor:

Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985 (donor)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

19 leaves from the middle of an unidentified Pali text (51-9-5.1), housed with 2 leaves from a narrative text about a king and a precious jewel in Thai with Pali words (51-9-5.2).

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.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century

Physical Description:

1 online resource (21 leaves) : color illustrations

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 18, 2015); Written in 5 lines per leaf (51-9-5.1) and 4 lines per leaf (51-9-5.2).; Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 21 cm (51-9-5.1) and 19.5 cm (51-9-5.2) apart; faded red edges on leaves of longer text (51-9-5.1); most ends damaged, 2 leaves partial (f. 17-18), and one comprised of 3 small fragments (f. 19).; Longer text foliated with letters starting with M, so the beginning of this manuscript is lacking (51-9-5.1); one of the leaves in the shorter text is foliated ga (51-9-5.2).; Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.5 x 53 cm (51-9-5.1); 4.1 x 51.1 cm (51-9-5.2).; 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 (51-9-5.1) and Thai with Pali words (51-9-5.2) (Lanna).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 51-9-5

Collection:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts