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.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

folded books

fragments (object portions)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Thai.

Manuscripts.

Specimens.

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 illustrations

polychrome

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 89-13-415

Place of Publication:

between 1875 and 1899?

Language Note:

In modern Thai (text on verso).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing two women, possibly nuns, kneeling in a devotional pose before a yellow background. On the verso is a modern copy of text from the Phra Malai. A small piece of the manuscript with yellow on one side and text on the other is pasted in the center of the right edge to reinforce the hinge. The upper right corner is slightly damaged.

Notes:

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

Written in 6 lines per segment.

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

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

Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.3 x 17.5 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 89-13-415.