Illumination from Thai manuscript between 1875 and 1899?
- Description
- Illumination cut from a folio of a Thai manuscript, showing farmers working and children playing by a river. The scene also includes water buffalo, fish, birds, two buildings, and a forest background. On the verso is text from the Phra Malai.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- fragments (object portions)
- folded books
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts, Thai
- illustrated works (documents)
- Date
- 1875
- Language
- Thai
- Subject
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai -- Specimens
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai
- Geographic Subject
- Thailand -- Pictorial works
- Thailand
- Extent
- 1 folio : color illustration
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on September 17, 2015)
- Written in 5 lines per leaf.
- Written on khoi paper; manuscript originally folded concertina- or accordion-style, but this fragment of one folio is stored flat.
- Written and painted in Thailand in the late 19th century (Justin McDaniel).
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 28.3 x 24 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.
- In Thai (Khom).
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 89-13-395
- Provenance
- Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989.
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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