Vohara text 1700s?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

Language:

Pali

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature, Pali--Early works to 1800.

Buddhist literature, Pali.

Genre:

facsimiles (reproductions)

sermons

commentaries

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Pali -- 18th century.

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 (19 folios) : color illustrations

polychrome

Contained In:

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

Place of Publication:

1700s?

Language Note:

In Pali (Lanna).

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

text file

Summary:

Vohara text describing the deeds of great people; includes a relic history.

Notes:

Title supplied by Justin McDaniel (viewed on October 21, 2015)

Written in 4 lines per leaf.

Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 17 cm apart; tied through the left hole; some leaves partial, some edges damaged.

Written in Thailand, possibly in the 18th century (Justin McDaniel).

Dimensions of original manuscript: 4.7 x 52.5 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 51-9-9.