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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Project / Collection Fragile palm leaves digitisation initiative Subject Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka

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. EAP1150/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/8
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Different dates and scribes for the 2 texts not belonging to the same ms. Inscribed cotton ribbon, broken in 3 pieces. Wrapper: printed cotton black, pink flowers, lined with a piece of bath towel!. E...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
270 TIFF images

3. 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

4. EAP1150/1/14

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/14
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Different mss. combined. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19th centuries Keywords: Nissaya: Suttantapiṭaka; ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
253 TIFF images

5. EAP1150/1/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/19
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Gilded covers and leaves with vermilion band. Many leaves brittle, broken and mouldy; very fragile. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Poor condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19th centuries Keywords: Suttantapiṭaka, Buddhism, Remove, Handbook: V...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
255 TIFF images

6. EAP1150/1/22

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/22
Title:
[jāt] Vessantarā jāt nissya
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Nissaya: Suttantapiṭaka. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript; ka-dhu. Condition of original material: Fair condition. Keywords: Jātaka, Buddhism.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
223 TIFF images

7. EAP1150/1/25

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/25
Title:
Milindapaññā
Scope & Content:
Black and red lac. covers are decorated with floral motifs decorating the punch holes and dots in red lac. on black. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Paracanonical text. Date of completion of work sāsanā sakkarāj 2339 = CE 1795 (f. sā V, 6-7); kocā sakkarāj 1157 (f. sā V,6) = CE 1795. Extent:...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1783
Extent:
253 TIFF images

8. EAP1150/1/26

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/26
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Some gilded leaves and some gilded with vermilion band. Sightly damaged by rats on borders but the is text legible. Two different mss. (sizes, edges, handwriting). Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
256 TIFF images

9. EAP1150/1/29

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/29
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Decorated woven cotton ribbon. Wrapper: woven checked fabric, red and pink lined with coarse cotton sewn by machine. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
319 TIFF images

10. EAP1150/1/31

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/31
Title:
Buddhavaṃsa pāli nissaya
Scope & Content:
Gilded covers decorated with floral motifs on brown lac. inside; title Buddhavaṅ engraved in the wood: Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Beige woven cotton wrapper with geometrical motifs of green, red and black. A bilingual rendering of canonical Pali text belonging to the Khuddaka-nikāya coll...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
1767
Extent:
173 TIFF images