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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Pali Subject Health and Medicine

1. EAP1123/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/1
Title:
Wat Cet Riw Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The Cet Riw collection is small, compromised of all the texts digitised here: three medical texts, which by their nature also include astrology and charts relating astrological configurations...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon, Pali, and Thai
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
238 TIFF images

2. EAP1123/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/1/1
Title:
Cet Riw Medical Text 1
Scope & Content:
Accordian-style folding book (parabaik) medical text discussing various illnesses which affect the human body. Includes various various astrological diagrams. The text appears to have been written in stages. Written in black pencil. The books has come apart, but all sections appear present. The ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
50 TIFF images

3. EAP1123/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/1/2
Title:
Cet Riw Medical Text 2
Scope & Content:
Accordian-style folding book (parabaik) medical text discussing various illnesses which affect the human body. In Mon with some Pāli. Includes various various astrological diagram and lists. Also includes some doodles. The text appears to have been written in stages. Written in black pencil. NOT...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 19th century
Extent:
135 TIFF images

4. EAP1123/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/1/3
Title:
Cet Riw Thai Text 1
Scope & Content:
Accordian-style folding book (parabaik) of unknown provenance and topic. Written in a mixture of Thai and Khom (Thai-style Khmer writing). All the Cet Riw manuscripts were kept together in a wooden box, so presumably all are on the same topic - medical treatment. Extent: 1 accordian paper books...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Pali and Thai
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
32 TIFF images

5. EAP1123/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/2
Title:
Wat Sirimongkhon Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The Wat Sirimongkhon collection is large. This was one of the few collections which we able to go through almost completely because a Mon monk who could read Mon helped us do so. Most of the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
242 TIFF images

6. EAP1123/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/4
Title:
Wat Metārāng Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The temple has collection of palm leaf manuscripts, mostly in Mon but with some Pāḷi and Thai, housed in a wooden cabinet off to the main shrine area. The collection was in fairly good condit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
738 TIFF images

7. EAP1123/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5
Title:
Wat Makhām Ratburi Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. Sizeable collection kept in two wooden cabinets to the side of the main hall. Collection was mostly palm-leaf manuscripts in Mon and Pāḷi on the usual religious subjects. Manuscripts were kep...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
303 TIFF images

8. EAP1150/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1
Title:
Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
Scope & Content:
A private library of Pali and vernacular Burmese palm-leaf manuscripts from Burma. Custodial history: The manuscripts were collected by Peter Skilling over the past several decades. Additional date information: Manuscripts included in the collection were created/copied between the 17th–20th ce...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
70296 TIFF images

9. EAP1150/1/115

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/115
Title:
Mahārājavaṃsa I
Scope & Content:
Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. One damaged red lac. cover; one plain teak cover with gilding and vermilion band on edges (both originally belong to other manuscripts, the plain teakwood cover is inscribed with the name of the tex...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
c 1845
Extent:
151 TIFF images

10. EAP1150/1/172

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/172
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red lac. covers. One set of gilded leaves and another of gilded with vermilion band. One damaged stray leaf of ‘Dhātuvitthāra’ in Burmese verse found. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19th centuries Keyw...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
170 TIFF images