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1. 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

2. EAP1150/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/2
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Multiple-text palm-leaf manuscript. Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Additional date information: Copied c. 1890 Keywords: Buddhism, History. This manuscript contains the following 4 texts: EAP1150/1/2/1: Mahābodhivaṃsa pāṭha Description: ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
231 TIFF images

3. EAP1150/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/6
Title:
Mahārājavaṃsa I
Scope & Content:
Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a two-bundle set. Red lac. covers of which one clearly comes from a different manuscript. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. In its full extent, Mahārājavaṃsa is a 21-volume work (organized into two or three palm-lea...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
289 TIFF images

4. EAP1150/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/9
Title:
Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ I
Scope & Content:
Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a five-bundle set. Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Bundlemark. This manuscript originally was the first bundle of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ containi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
175 TIFF images

5. EAP1150/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/13
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red and dark red covers not fitting this ms. Red lac. leaves and small portion of gilded leaves with vermilion band. Different size leaves; mixed, miscellaneous. Also other unidentified texts including one referring to manudhammasat, one jātaka, one romantic verse and one Burmese cosmology. Leav...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
124 TIFF images

6. EAP1150/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/23
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Multiple-text palm-leaf manuscript that originally, most likely, was a collection of nine historiographic works known as Vaṅ kuiḥ vaṅ. Only three of nine fascicles currently survive. Black lac. covers; the top cover does not fit this ms. Gilded leaves with vermilion band has decorated edges in r...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
181 TIFF images

7. EAP1150/1/50

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/50
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers. Plain ungilded leaves. Woven cotton wrapper with white cotton background. 23 gilded leaves in Burmese-Pāḷi unidentified text and one plain unidentified leaf of Burmese verse found. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional da...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
169 TIFF images

8. EAP1150/1/54

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/54
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Multiple-text palm-leaf manuscript. Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves. Plain green woven cotton ribbon. Woven silk wrapper with zig-zag design stitched onto plain cotton background. Extent: One bundle of 301 inscribed palm-leaves (ff. ka - ya) organized into two fascicles. Two red lac. covers. Pla...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
305 TIFF images

9. EAP1150/1/67

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/67
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Vermilion wooden boards. Paper slip on right side of first: "MS ID 3656, Piṭakat samuiṅ starts from here ñuva (r/jhī, line 3)" On fol. .ka.r (3) there is a fuller rubricated description with owner’s name: ။။ khaṅpu kaṃ tuik bha mau kyoṅḥ charā tau ap ၊ samūhavinicchayya ၊ kca ၊ mī achuṃ cā sāḥ 2...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
296 TIFF images

10. EAP1150/1/81

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/81
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Composite bundle made of parts of two originally different manuscripts merged together due to the similarity of content. Two different covers: one black lac. and one plain teak with decoration on the top of cover. Red lac. leaves. Extent: 1 palm-leaf manuscript. Additional date information: Co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1767-1782
Extent:
288 TIFF images