Asubbhakammaţţhana illumination? between 1800 and 1825?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.

Buddhist monks--Pictorial works.

Buddhist monks.

Death--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Death.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

folded books

fragments (object portions)

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 illustrations

polychrome

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 89-13-416

Place of Publication:

between 1800 and 1825?

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

text file

Summary:

Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing a monk removing pamsakulla cloth from a corpse, probably a scene of corpse observation and meditation. Another small illumination of a monster and text in unidentified script on verso.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (from Justin McDaniel; viewed on September 17, 2015)

Written in 5 lines per segment.

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

Painted in the early 19th century (Justin McDaniel).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 22.5 x 19.4 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 89-13-416.