Thai sample book : manuscript
- Description
- 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)
- Creator
- Buell, William P. (compiler)
- Atkinson, William M. (William Mayo), 1796-1849 (addressee)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- accordion books
- Date
- 1840
- Language
- Thai
- English
- Subject
- Thai language -- Study and teaching
- Thai language -- Writing
- Missionaries -- Thailand
- Collection
- Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (56 segments) : paper ; 11 x 35 cm
- Notes
- In Thai (Thai script), with notes in English.
- 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.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 30
- 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.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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