Horoscope manuscript fragment, before 1837.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Godon, Victor L., former owner.
• American Philosophical Society, former owner.

Language:

Thai

Subjects (All):

• Astrology, Thai.
• Horoscopes--Thailand.
• Horoscopes.
• Thailand.

Genre:

• fragments (object portions)
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Thai.
• Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

• Possibly formerly owned by Victor L. Godon, who served as a midshipman and surgeon in the United States Navy in the Pacific, and given by Godon to the American Philosophical Society in the 1830s (note in ink on an APS notecard, dated 17 November 1837, tied to upper cover), number L-122-249 (number in ink on note and upper cover).
• Housed at the Penn Libraries (cataloged as UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2990) on loan from the Penn Museum, 1955.
• Returned to the Penn Museum, 2022.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : palm leaf ; 5.7 x 36.8 cm + 1 note

Place of Publication:

before 1837.

Language Note:

In Thai with some words in Sanskrit and Pali (Central Thai)

Summary:

Fragment of a horoscope manuscript that describes personal qualities, physical aspects, and time of death.

Notes:

• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
• 9 leaves, the first a cover, versos foliated with payanchanas, kho through khuu (alphabetical ordering system, from the middle of an alphabetical sequence).
• Written before 1837 (date of later note).
• Folios have a central hole.

Publications about:

Described and transcribed in Dhiradhammo, Yongyut. Traditional Thai astrology from a palm-leaf manuscript (Bangkok: The Suwannakhomkham Foundation, 2017). A copy is in the curatorial file.

Cited as:

Horoscope Manuscript Fragment (Penn Museum 87-43-150). Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

865504998