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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/51
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This is a leporello manuscript made of greyish khòi paper. The texts are written in Tham-Lao and Old Lao scripts. Most pages are filled with coloured paintings (related to the story of Prince Vessantara). There are also some beautiful coloured drawings showing the location of cities (known from I...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Pali
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 43 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/52
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This is a mulberry (sa) manuscript with the folios sown together along their upper narrow side. This texts, written mostly in Tham-Lao script (with few sections in Old Lao script) deal with ceremonies concerning the ordiation of monks and time reckoning. The final part of the manuscripts comprise...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 34 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/55
Title:: Ban Ton Phothisat, Itipiso (ບັ້ນຕົ້ນໂພທິສັດ, ອິຕິປິໂສ) (2000)
Scope & Content:: This is a leporello manuscript, written with black, dark blue and (on two pages) red ink on greyish khòi (sa?) paper. The text, written in Tham-Lao script, is about various teachings in Pali. The front and back cover folios are painted with black and golden decor, bearing also the title of the ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Pali
Date Range:: 2000
Extent:: 74 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/56
Title:: Sut Thòt (ສູດຖອດ)
Scope & Content:: This leporello multiple-text manuscript is written with black, dark blue and pink (on two pages) ink in greyish khòi (sa?) paper. The texts, written in Lao-Tham script with the last three pages in Old Lao script, are about magic formulas that are used for the exocising of spirits inhabiting certa...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Pali
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 32 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/57
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This leporello multiple-text manuscript is written with black and dark blue ink in greyish khòi (sa?) paper. The texts comprise many topics such as time reckoning, magic formulas, and several kinds of chanting. 21 folios. Scripts: Tham-Lao, Lao Buhan
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 21 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/59
Title:: Sukha Itipiso (ສູຂອິຕິປີໂສ)
Scope & Content:: This leporello manuscript written on greyish khòi (or sa?) paper with blue ink in the Tham-Lao script bears a Pali text on ist first half. This text shows interlinear glosses and corrections in blank ink and deletions marked with a red ballpen. The second half comprises coloured drawings with a s...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 55 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/60
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This leporello manuscript written on greyish khòi (or sa?) paper with black ink. It is written in Tham-Lao script (pages 2, 8, 9, 15, 16) and Old Lao script. The texts deal with time reckoning and magic formula. However, two pages (8 and 9) comprise a text which is part of a chronicle of the Lao ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 12 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/61
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: Half of this leporello manuscript written on greyish khòi (or sa?) paper with black ink consists of blank pages (the complete second part). The first part in written in Lao-Tham script and comprises a collection of circular-shaped magical diagrams with yantras. The text (pages 16–21) deal with th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 23 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/63
Title:: Sut Ban Ton (opening sermon), Sut Phothisat, Sut Itipiso, Baep Kammavāca Nueang Duai Sima, Upalok Kathin, (ສູຕຮບັ້ນຕົ້ນ)
Scope & Content:: This leporello multiple-text manuscript, written with black and blue ink on greyish khòi (sa?) paper, contains several chanting texts related to the ordination of monks or the offerings of monk's robes. Apart from last section, written in Old Lao script, the manuscript is written in Tham-Lao scri...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Pali
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 61 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/64
Title:: Kammavaca Sutthantapalivasakam (ກຳມະວາຈາສຸດທັນຕະປະລິວາສະກຳ)
Scope & Content:: This leporello manuscript is written with purple and green ballpen on greyish khòi (sa?) paper. This text is about the way a proper ordination ceremony is organized, the qualities of a person who is going to beomce a monk or novice. This text is a compilation of questions raised by the senior mon...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Pali
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 23 Tiff images

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