Thai manuscript, 1800s?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Tai (Other)

Thai

Genre:

folded books

Manuscripts, Thai.

Manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Digital.

Physical Description:

1 item (77 folios) : paper ; 12 x 36 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts. Item 14

Place of Publication:

1800s?

Language Note:

In Thai, with the first line in Khom (f. A01 lower).

Summary:

Manuscript all in Thai script, except for its opening line in Khom, perhaps including transliterations of Khom in Thai script.

Notes:

Written in 10 lines per folio.

After the first 23 folios on the front, the rest of the folios are blank except for one line on the partial last folio of the front (f. A39 upper), which now appears as the lower cover.

Written in the 19th century?

Folios are black charcoal khoi paper, with white chalk script; folded concertina- or accordion-style.

Upper cover with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper and with traces of red in the center, possibly from a stamp; lower cover missing.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 990, Item 14

OCLC:

919264966