Abhidhamma chet kamphi? : Phra Malai?, between 1875 and 1899?

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Pali

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Rituals.

Buddhism.

Genre:

Folded books.

Manuscripts, Thai.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Michael Janiel/Dallasarts.net (Rockport, Texas, eBay) for the benefit of the Thai Buddhist Temple (Rockport, Texas), 2017.

Physical Description:

1 item (23 folios) : paper ; 10.5 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts. Item 25

Place of Publication:

between 1875 and 1899?

Language Note:

In Pali (Khom).

Summary:

Partial manuscript with text from the Abhidhamma chet kamphi (chanting prompts for text chanted at funerals), and possibly also from the Phra Malai (popular story of a monk who visits heaven and hell). The manuscript was probably illustrated, but no illustrations remain with the extant fragments (7 folios, 1 folio, and 15 folios). The folios are ruled in drypoint. Two folios formerly sewn together along their edges have now broken apart; sewing has also been used for repairs on other folds.

Notes:

Written in 6 lines per folio.

Undyed mulberry paper with script in black ink and gomas with red in the center; folded concertina- or accordion-style.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 990, Item 25

OCLC:

1085544613