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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12264
Title:: Sang Sinchai samut 4 สังสินชัย สหมุด ๔
Scope & Content:: Volume 4 of the Thai verse novel SangSinchai. (A similar version is known in Laos and Northeast Thailand as SangSinsai or Sinxay, and in the Mon literary tradition under the title Sangada). The manuscript is thought to have been brought to the UK via Bengal by Sir John MacGregor Murray in 1797....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1767-1796
Extent:: 41 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12265 (a)
Title:: 'Phra Chatthan' พระฉัดทัน
Scope & Content:: Thai version of the Chaddanta Jataka (Jātaka no. 514), the story of the Buddha’s previous existence as an elephant. Written by the same scribe as Add MS 12265/B. The scribe apologises for his poor verse and handwriting at the beginning and end. At the end, there is a short recipe for medicine ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 45 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12265 (b)
Title:: 'Phra Satchanū' พระสัดฉหนู
Scope & Content:: Part 1 of the Thai version of Sajanu (also Sajana or Satchanu) based on the Sudhanu Jātaka, an extra-canonical Jataka tale included in the Thai recension of the Pannasa Jataka (Paññāsa-jātaka). The scribe is the same as in Add MS 12265/A. The scribe concludes this manuscript with a note saying ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 40 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15347
Title:: 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย = Maleyyatheravannana
Scope & Content:: Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. The illustrations represent celestial beings (devata), and the tortures of the damned in hell. Fol. 2: "namo tassa… namo tassa… tilokasettham tam buddham dhammanavaniyanikam samgham nikkhanañceva abhivadi bhasiss...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1830-1838
Extent:: 85 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19351
Title:: Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:: Fortune telling manual with drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Fragment with some folio...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese and Thai
Date Range:: 1760-1853
Extent:: 20 folios (paginated 1-39)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21141/A
Title:: Laksanawong ลักษณวงศ์ Vol. 4
Scope & Content:: Part 4 of the Laksavamsa, a poetic novel by Sunthon Phu (incomplete).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1800-1850
Extent:: 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21141/B
Title:: Laksanawong ลักษณวงศ์ Vol. 5
Scope & Content:: Part 5 of the Laksavamsa, a poetic novel by Sunthon Phu (incomplete).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1800-1850
Extent:: 60 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21929
Title:: Thai grammar, part 1. ไวยากรณ์
Scope & Content:: Part 1 of a Grammar of the Siamese or Thai language, presented by Dorner Augustus Chase, Captain, Bengal Army. Deals principally with the phonology and script. Dated 1856 A.D.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Thai
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 13 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27370
Title:: Drawings from the Traiphum ไตรภูมิพระร่วง and the Ten Birth Tales ทสชาติ
Scope & Content:: Drawings of the cosmology and mythology of Siam, in colours and pencil. Some of these are connected with the Traibhumikatha, the Thai Buddhist cosmogony of heaven, earth and hell; some depict scenes from The Ten Birth Tales; others are astrological, while f. 18 is a drawing of the reception of L...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1824
Extent:: 19 folios

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