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Phra Malai 1860s or 1870s.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Heaven--Buddhism.
- Heaven.
- Buddhism.
- Hell--Buddhism.
- Hell.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai.
- Genre:
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- folded books
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts, Thai.
- Manuscripts.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Undated colophon by a writer referring to himself without naming himself, his wife Jai, his grandmother Pien, and a man with the surname Kiew and his four sons, who together donated the manuscript to a monastery, probably for a funeral.
- Formerly owned by Ethel S. Jordan (signature inside upper cover; possibly a relative of the donor).
- Gift of Mrs. Guy G. Gabrielson, Jr. (Nancy Jordan Gabrielson), 1983
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 folios) : color illustrations
- polychrome
- Contained In:
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts. 83-23-1
- Place of Publication:
- 1860s or 1870s.
- Language Note:
- In Thai with shorter texts in Pali (Khom).
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- text file
- Summary:
- The popular story of Phra Malai (a monk who visits heaven and hell), preceded by 3 short texts illustrated with portraits, mostly of deities but also of monks and devotees.
- Contents:
- 1. f.A03-A05: Unahisavijaya
- 2. f.A05-A10: Bhojana
- 3. f.A10-A12: Paramathadharma
- 4. f.A13-B50: Phra Malai.
- Notes:
- Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger (viewed on December 8, 2015)
- Written in 5 lines per segment.
- Written on khoi paper, with 2 folios written in gold ink on black (f. A03, A06); folded concertina- or accordion-style.
- 16 illustrated folios (11 on Side A, 5 on Side B) with images of monks (f. A03), deities (f. A06-A11), devotees (f. A12), and Phra Malai episodes (f. A13, A30, A42, B11, B26, B36-B37, B44).
- Covers attached, simply lacquered, with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper.
- Written in Thailand, probably in the 1860s or 1870s (Justin McDaniel).
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 13.25 x 63.5 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 83-23-1.
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