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Thai sample book : manuscript.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Buell, William P., compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Thai language--Study and teaching.
- Thai language.
- Thai language--Writing.
- Missionaries--Thailand.
- Missionaries.
- Genre:
- accordion books
- Manuscripts, Thai -- 19th century.
- Manuscripts -- Thailand -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Compiled by William P. Buell for William M. Atkinson, Winchester, Virginia (note in yellow ink, f. 2r), not after 1844.
- Gift of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia, 2020.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (56 segments) : paper ; 11 x 35 cm
- Production:
- Thailand, between 1840 and 1844.
- Contained In:
- Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts. Item 30
- Language Note:
- In Thai (Thai script), with notes in English.
- Summary:
- Pedagogical manuscript compiled by the missionary William P. Buell for Presbyterian minister William M. Atkinson, including material on the Thai alphabet and combinations of Thai consonants and vowels (f. 4r-14r); Matthew 19:16-26 in Thai with spaces between words to assist a beginning reader (f. 18v-21v); and excerpts from Sunthon Phu’s verse travelogue Nirat Phra Bat (f. 46v-52v) and the epic poem Khun Chang Khun Phaen (f. 53v-55v), given as examples of Thai scribbled handwriting (tua wat), referred to by Buell in the manuscript as tua wat and shorthand (f. 45v). (Peera Panarut)
- Notes:
- Written in 4 lines per leaf.
- Written between 1840 and 1844, the years that William Buell and Seignoria Buell were married missionaries in Thailand.
- Folios black, with Thai and English text in yellow ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
- A detailed description of this manuscript by Dr. Peera Panarut is on file at the library.
- Some folds between segments are brittle; the fold between f. 10r and f. 11r is mostly broken.
- Cited as:
- Thai Sample Book (Ms. Coll. 990, Item 30). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Bible. Matthew. Selections. Thai.
- OCLC:
- 1428279706
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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