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[DE-SBB] Hs. or. 10613

Classmark
  • Hs. or. 10613
Title
  • Phra-Malai
Collection

Content

Title

↳ wie in Referenz
  • Phra-Malai
Subject matter
Region
Content
  • Phra Malai, or Māleyya, a Buddhist saint, was believed to have lived in Aruradhapura, Sri Lanka, during the reign of the legendary Sinhalese King Duṭṭhagāmaṇi (101-77 B.C.).
    Phra Malai Kham Luang (Thai: พระมาลัยคำหลวง, pronounced [pʰráʔ mālāj kʰām lǔaŋ]) is the royal version of a Thai legendary poem of the Sri Lankan Arhat Maliyadeva whose stories are popular in Thai and Cambodian Theravada Buddhism.
Completeness
Language
Script
Beginning
  • Face A, p. 4, 1: yan tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahato samma sambuddhena …
End of the text
  • Face B, p. 187, 5: in Thai
Remarks
  • Very nice and neat Khom (a variant of Khmer script often used in central Thai religious manuscripts) and Tv͝a kṣīen scripts in black ink pen by the same hand on both recto and verso Face A writing in 1 column; Face B writing in 2 columns

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • Black lacquered covers

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ Colour
↳ State of preservation
  • The book is heavily damaged by humidity; the second cover is heavily damaged by humidity on the right side from p.18 to p.49; traces of humidity on most of pages
Number of folios
  • 200 p.; text: face A, pp. 4-96, face B, pp. 101-187.
Dimensions
  • 66x14,5

Script

↳ Ink
↳ Characteristics
  • The manuscript is accordion-folded, with a thick cover of black varnished paperboards lavishly illustrated with gilt floral decoration
Illustrations
  • The manuscript is completed on both recto and verso, in Thai style with dark backgrounds and floral borders in gilt and water colour, with nine pairs of watercolor illustrations, a number extensively embellished with gilt, totaling eighteen illustrations.
    Face A: 7 pairs of lavish illustrations pp. 4-5; 6-7; 12-13; 14-15; 50-51; 52-53; 89-90 (damaged in the right edge)
    Face B: 2 pairs of lavish illustrations pp. 120-121; 152-153

History of the object

Provenienz

Provenienz
  • ExLibris Christian Velder

Access and usage

Collection
Project
Classmark
  • Hs. or. 10613
↳ alternate
  • Editor classmark : N° 00125
Acessibility
  • usage permitted
Editor
  • Hélène Bru-Nut
status of edit
  • First input complete
Static URL
https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00014454
MyCoRe ID
DE1Book_manuscript_00014454 (XML view)
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Metadata license
CC0 1.0
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