Extracts from the Tipiṭaka and 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย
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Fols. 1-9: Extracts from the Tipiṭaka Fols. 10-88: Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. Colophon on fol. 88 in Thai script giving date B.E. 2418: 'หนังสือพระมาไลเลมนี ข้าพเจ้ามีสัทาชรางไว้ในพระพุทสาษน้า สำเรดแล้วในปีมะโรงสำเรชีศก พระพุทศักราชลวงแล...
Cambodian version of the Ramayana, or Reamker. Cover title: nèḥ sātrā rāmmaker tāṃṅ te rābbh luoc sètā mak tal hanummān thvāyº khluon jā khñuṃm capp tè punneḥ eṅ hoṅ. An excerpt of the earliest portion of the Khmer Rāmāyaṇa, Rāmakerti I (sixteenth–seventeenth centuries CE), beginning from stanz...
A poetic novel, volume 1 only. Beginning with events in Kosamphi. On Fols. 1-2 the unknown author says that they wrote this novel in order to express their gratefulness to their parents and teachers.