Pali manuscript fragments 1720s, 1800-1850.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Kneedler, Christina Butler Harris, 1904-1985, donor.

Language:

Thai

Subjects (All):

Pali language--Grammar.

Pali language.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

treatises

commentaries

Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, Thai -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Mrs. W. H. Kneedler (Christina Butler Harris Kneedler, former Presbyterian medical missionary in Thailand with her husband, William Harding Kneedler), 1951.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 leaves) : color illustrations

polychrome

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 51-9-12

Place of Publication:

1720s, 1800-1850.

Language Note:

In Pali (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

text file

Summary:

Collection of leaves from 5 different manuscripts: nine leaves from a Pali grammatical treatise on conjugations (51-9-12.1); three leaves from an Abhidhamma commentary, possibly a sutra (51-9-12.2); and single leaves from three additional manuscripts (51-9-12.3-5), including a half leaf of a nissaya text based on a sutra (51-9-12.4).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 11, 2015)

Written in 9-11 lines per leaf (51-9-12.1) and 5-6 lines per leaf (51-9-12.2-5).

Written on palm leaves.

Written in the 1720s (51-9-12.1) and the first half of the 1800s (59-9-12.2-4) (Justin McDaniel).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 6.5 x 58 cm (51-9-12.1); 4.9 x 52.9 cm (51-9-12.2); 5 x 37.5 cm (51-9-12.3); 4.1 x 24 cm (51-9-12.4); 3.4 x 19 cm (51-9-12.5).

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 51-9-12.