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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16985/H
Title:: 'Ñāti-guṇa-kataññutā' ญาติคุณากตัญญุตา
Scope & Content:: Buddhist text, highlighting the virtue of gratefulness, beginning with “Namo tassa…”. Title on last folio. Colophon: “ศรัทธาแม่ผัน เทพวัน ถวายทานไว้ภายหนา้ ไว้สืบสาสนา หา้พันพระวัสสาขอได้สุขสามประการมีพระนิพพานเป็นยอด นิพพานปจจโยโหตุ ถวายทานเมื่อวันที่ ๓๑ เดือนสิงหาคมพุทธศักราช ๒๔๙๒ ปีฉลู ตรงกั...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1880-1949
Extent:: 10 leaves (1 bundle)

Reference (shelfmark):: ORB.99/258
Title:: Mahā Vessantara Jātaka มหาเวสสันดรชาดก
Scope & Content:: Thirteen scenes from the Vessantara Jataka, the last Birth Tale of the Buddha, depicted in a phrabot painting in the Thai Rattanakosin style by Irving Chan Johnson, Lim Su Qi and Rungnapa Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore. Illustrations: 1 กัณฑ์ทศพร (Kan Thosaphorn): Indra instructs P...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 2019
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B IV
Title:: Alphabetum Syamense
Scope & Content:: Thai syllabary and numerals in a sloping hand, with romanized equivalents. Thought to have been presented to King Charles II on 26 September 1684 by a Thai embassy on behalf of King Narai (Ramathibodi III) who reigned Ayutthaya from 1656 to 1688
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B XVI
Title:: Thai syllabary
Scope & Content:: Thai alphabet, registered as a manuscript, but in fact a printed version which was engraved from the item Royal MS 16 B IV with the title Alphabetum Syamense. Signed „MBurg. sculp.“ Michael Burghers was born in Holland around 1647/8, died in Oxford 1727. Oldest known example of Thai script pri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1700
Extent:: 2 folios

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