Lao manuscript 1780s?
- Description
- 18th-century manuscript from northeast Thailand. Accompanied by a modern printed tag in Thai from the Fine Arts Department certifying permission for the manuscript to leave Thailand.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Lao
- Manuscripts, Thai
- Date
- 1780
- Language
- Lao
- Collection
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Thai Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 online resource (101 folios) : color illustrations
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger (viewed on November 10, 2015)
- Written in 4 lines per leaf.
- Unusually foliated with a combination of letters and numerals.
- Written by a poorly trained scribe, lacking tone marks (Justin McDaniel).
- Leaves of palm leaf, many damaged, with four holes, two central ones approximately 17.5 cm apart and two at the left and right margins; lacquered edges.
- Wooden covers with a cord tied through the two center holes; writing in old Lao inside the lower cover.
- Possibly written in the 1780s (Justin McDaniel).
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 4 x 56.4 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 Lao (Northern Thai, Tham).
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hx1651j
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Penn Museum 82-7-54
- Provenance
- Purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1982.
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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