Single-text manuscript containing a medical work. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. Incomplete. Has no covers.
A little-known medical work of Burmese origin. Composed in a bilingual form in the mid-eighteenth century or earlier. The manuscript is quite damaged and the end of the text is missing. Given the absence of other accessible exemplars, it is not clear how much of the text is missing. Likely, it i...
A manuscript fragment comprised of two folios belonging to a single text. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Gilded folios with red pigment band in the middle. Incomplete (only two folios). One wooden cover, painted with red pigment on the upp...
A handbook in Pali verse facilitating the memorization of Abhidhamma materials in a systematized form. Composed by a famous fifteenth-century monk who resided in Bagan and made a travel to Lanka. Extent and format of original material: Part of the fascicle comprised of 2 inscribed folios. Auth...
Single-text manuscript for monastic ritual use. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Pressed cloth, lacquer. Complete. Wooden covers, the upper side gilded and decorated with a design (featuring three deities in cartouches) painted with red pigment, unders...
Kammavācā manuscript containing nine sections, includes upasampadā (ff. ka-ku v), ovāda (ff. ku v - kai r), kaṭhina (ff. kai r – ko v), sīmā (ko v - kha r), thera (kha r – kha v), nāma (kha v – khā r), vihāra (kappiyabhūmi) (khā r – khā v), kuṭi (khā v – khi v), and nissayamutta samuti (khi v – ...
Rhve gū krīʺ kyoṅʻʺ monastery (pronounced Shwe-gu-gyi-kyaung) is a historically prominent monastery. It is associated with the most venerated Buddhist stupa of Halin, a monument whose foundation is ascribed to Indian emperor Asoka. Manuscripts kept there include approximately one hundred and thi...