Language: Tai languages / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/22
Title:: Khon Ming [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is similar to the other Khon Ming manuscripts. It contains mantra for calling of khons or spirits.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 20 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/23
Title:: Lit Ka Na [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is about procasting good or bad happenings based on astrological calculations.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 56 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/24
Title:: Lit Du Tin Kai [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: It is a fortune telling manuscript. There are pictures of chicken legs tied together with thin bamboo sticks fixed to them on each of the folios and according to these pictures which are different from one another forecasts are made for any kind of occassions or events.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 16 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/25
Title:: Lit Sai Kai [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a kind of ballad which reads the story of the creation of the Tai race on earth. Its content is similar to the other Sai Kai manuscripts.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 32 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/26
Title:: Unknown [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the story of the great flood. In this great flood all the evil men were drowned except Khau Lip Ling who was a very wise man. He saved himself by getting on a stone raft. And thereafter he gave rise to the human civilization. These men were given knowledge by Ai Khang Kha...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 6 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/27
Title:: Phe Lung Phe Ban [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This is a fortune telling manuscript based on different astrological calculations. In image 44, it is written that on the 13th day travel travel the north is not good while towards the east is good. There is a ladder like picture in image 30 and two tables in image 0051 and 0053. This figures mus...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 70 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP373/24/28
Title:: Sai Kai [c18th century]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a kind of ballad which reads the story of the creation of the Tai race on earth. In image 0001, it is written that long ago the the first of God to be the Tai race on ground, the second daughter to be the race of farmers, the third daughter to be the Tai race.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tai languages
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 64 tiff images