Thai manuscript, 1800s?

Description
Manuscript all in Thai script, except for its opening line in Khom, perhaps including transliterations of Khom in Thai script.
Form
manuscripts (documents)
folded books
Manuscripts, Thai
Date
between 1800 and 1899
Language
Thai
Tai languages
Collection
Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts
Extent
1 item (77 folios) : paper ; 12 x 36 cm
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.
In Thai, with the first line in Khom (f. A01 lower).
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 14
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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