Illumination from Thai manuscript between 1875 and 1899?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Thai

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Thailand--Pictorial works.

Thailand.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

fragments (object portions)

folded books

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Thai.

Manuscripts.

Pictorial works.

Specimens.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 folio) : color illustration

polychrome

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 89-13-395

Place of Publication:

between 1875 and 1899?

Language Note:

In Thai (Khom).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing farmers working and children playing by a river. The scene also includes water buffalo, fish, birds, two buildings, and a forest background. On the verso is text from the Phra Malai.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015)

Written in 5 lines per leaf.

Written on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.

Written and painted in Thailand in the late 19th century (Justin McDaniel).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.3 x 24 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.

Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2015.

Cited as:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 89-13-395.