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Nissaya manuscript fragments, 1143 BE (1786), undated.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Pali language--Grammar.
- Pali language.
- Genre:
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Thai -- 18th 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 (51 folios) : color illustrations
- polychrome
- Contained In:
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 51-9-1
- Place of Publication:
- 1143 BE (1786), undated.
- Language Note:
- In Pali and Northern Thai (Lanna).
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- text file
- Summary:
- Collection of leaves from 2 different manuscripts: 28 leaves of a Nissaya text on grammar, divided into eight parts (51-9-1.1), with an associated name, Suvaññasācca; and 23 leaves of another Nissaya text, possibly written by a novice named Caddhaguman (51-9-1.2).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 16, 2015)
- Written in 5 lines per leaf.
- Written on palm leaves; leaves from one manuscript edged in red lacquer (51-9-1.1).
- Foliated with letters of the Lanna alphabet, ga to ngu (51-9-1.1), and ga to kho (51-9-1.2), verso left margin.
- One manuscript possibly written in 1143 BE (1786) (colophon, 51-9-1.2); other manuscript undated (51-9-1.1).
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 5 x 55.5 cm (51-9-1.1); 6 x 58.8 cm (51-9-1.2)
- 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, 2014.
- Cited as:
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 51-9-1.
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