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[DE-SBB] Ms. or. fol. 4131

Classmark
  • Ms. or. fol. 4131
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 Theravada Buddhism
Completeness
Language
Script
Beginning
  • B. face A p. 3, 1: namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā sambuddhassa
End of the text
  • E. face B p. 40, 5: … anubandhā honti bhikkhu saṃgha bvā / cap phraḥ sūth
Remarks
  • Very nice and neat Khom (a variant of Khmer script often used in central Thai religious manuscripts) and Tv͝a kṣīen (Thai) scripts in black ink pen by the same hand on both recto and verso. The text is written in 2 columns and sometimes in 1 column

Description of the object

Record type
Format
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • The cover is in thick mulberry brown paper, very damaged and eaten by insects

Writing material

↳ Material
↳ State of preservation
  • The manuscript is in good condition except the cover
Number of folios
  • 52 p.
Dimensions
  • 67,5x14,5
Number of lines
  • 5

Script

↳ Ink
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 eight pairs of water colour illustrations representing a legendary famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell
    Face A – 5 pairs of illustrations (p. 3-4; p. 11-12; p. 47-48; p. 49-50; p. 77-78)
    Face B – 3 pairs of illustrations (p. 39-40; p 43-44; p. 46-47)
Miniatures
  • 14

History of the object

Provenienz

Accession number
  • 1919.10
Provenienz
  • 1919
  • Preis: 350 Mark
    Preis für Ms. or. fol. 4131, 4279, 4280

Access and usage

Collection
Project
Classmark
  • Ms. or. fol. 4131
↳ alternate
  • Editor classmark : N° 00158
  • Accession number : 1919.10
Editor
  • Hélène Bru-Nut
status of edit
  • First input complete
Static URL
https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00017192
MyCoRe ID
DE1Book_manuscript_00017192 (XML view)
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Metadata license
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