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1. 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

2. EAP1123/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/2/4
Title:
Dreams of King Kosala
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ကောလသလမင်းအိပ်မက်. Title in Mon: လ္ပံပတ်သိုန်. Transliterated title: LPAɁ PAT SUIN. Palm leaf of dreams of King Pasenadi Kosala, a prominent follower of the Buddha. Extent: 1 bundle of palm leaf manuscript, approx 84 faces. Incomplete - leaves missing at beginning. Conditi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
86 TIFF images

3. EAP1123/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/2/5
Title:
Milinda and Nāgasena Questions and Answers
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: သၠပတ်မေလိုန်ကဵုနာဂသိုန်နွံသီုသၟာန်ကသှ်. Transliterated title: SLAPAT MELUIN KUIW NĀGA SUIN. Palm leaf manuscript of a dialogue between King Milinda and Nāgasena. Also called "Milinda Pañhā" and apparently considered a canonical text in Burma but not Thailand. Extent: 1 bundle of...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
34 TIFF images

4. EAP1123/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/3
Title:
Wat Saladaeng Neua Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The temple has a formal collection of religious texts housed in a separate library, raised on stilts to protect from flooding, to the back of the compound. Custodians had no key, but we could...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
168 TIFF images

5. EAP1123/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/3/4
Title:
Story of the Frog King
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ဖားမင်း. Title in Thai: ราชากบ. Title in Mon: လိက်သၟိင်ၚဴ. Transliterated title: LIK SMIṀ ṄAU. Palm leaf manuscript of folk story. Extent: 1 bundle, approximately 50 faces front and back. Condition of original material: Well inscribed but rough handwriting. Leaves have ha...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
27 TIFF images

6. EAP1123/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/3/6
Title:
Dhammaceti, 5th Section
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ဓမ္မစေတီပဉ္စမဝဂ္ဂ. Title in Thai: ธมมเจดีปัญจมวัคค. Title in Mon: ဓမ္မစေတဳပဉ္စမဝဂ်. Transliterated title: DHAMMACETĪ PAÑCAMA WAG. Palm leaf manuscript of what appears to be the fifth section of the history of Dhammacetī, a king of Pegu. Text is incomplete and missing leaves...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:
31 TIFF images

7. 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

8. EAP1123/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/4/2
Title:
Vessantara Jātaka, First Bundle: Dāsavara
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ဝေဿန္တရာဇာတ်တော် . Title in Thai: พระเวสันดรชาดก กัณฑ์ขสาพร. Title in Mon: ဒသုဵဝုဵပထမဝက်. Transliterated title: DASUIWWUIW PATHAMA WAK. Palm leaf manuscript of the Vessantara Jātaka, in 9 bundles, recounting one of Gotama Buddha''s past lives when he was Prince Vessantara, ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 19th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

9. EAP1123/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/4/3
Title:
Vessanatara Jātaka, Second Bundle: Himavanta
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ဝေဿန္တရာဇာတ်တော် . Title in Thai: พระเวสันดรชาดก กัณฑ์หิมพานต์. Title in Mon: ဟိမဝန်ဒုတိယဝက်. Transliterated title: HIMAWAN DUTIYA WAGGA. Palm leaf manuscript of the Vessantara Jātaka, in 9 bundles, recounting one of Gotama Buddha''s past lives when he was Prince Vessantara...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 19th century
Extent:
21 TIFF images

10. EAP1123/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/4/4
Title:
Vessantara Jātaka, Third Bundle: Dānakhaṇḍa
Scope & Content:
Title in Burmese: ဝေဿန္တရာဇာတ်တော် . Title in Thai: พระเวสันดรชาดก ทานขัณฑ์ตติย์วักก์ sic. Title in Mon: ဒါနခန်တတိယဝက်. Transliterated title: DĀNAKHAN TATIYA WAK. Palm leaf manuscript of the Vessantara Jātaka, in 9 bundles, recounting one of Gotama Buddha''s past lives when he was Prince Ves...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 19th century
Extent:
20 TIFF images