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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/47
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This is a leporello manuscript made of blackened khòi paper. The text is written either in yellow ink (beautiful handwriting) or white chalk (coarse handwriting). The texts pertain to astrology, the auspicious time to start with certain ceremonies, accompanied by drawings of the sun, moon and sta...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 18 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/48
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This is a leporello manuscript made of blackened khòi paper. The whole manuscript is written in yellow ink. The texts are written in modern Thai and Khòm scripts. on fortune-telling, especially related to the future of rulers facing either luck or misfortune in certain planetary constellations. T...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 41 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/3/5/49
Title:: Untitled multiple-text manuscript
Scope & Content:: This is a leporello manuscript made of blackened khòi paper. The whole manuscript is written in yellow ink. The texts are written in a number of scripts: Tham-Lao, Old Lao, modern Thai, and Khòm scripts. The texts are about traditional medice, magical devices, and (in the manuscripts second part)...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 61 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/5/1
Title:: Mulberry paper manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Only two leporello-style mulberry paper (chia sa) manuscripts have been found in Pha Khamchan's kuti. The first one (sutta) contains a canonical text, the second one is a multiple-text manuscript containing various magical and ritual texts written in a variety of scripts (and in Lao/Tai-Pali lang...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao, Pali, and Thai
Date Range:: 17th century-20th century
Extent:: 78 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP691/5/1/2
Title:: Luam Muat (ລວມໝວດ) (20th century)
Scope & Content:: The leporello multiple-text manuscript is made of white-greyish khòi paper with black ink in various scipts, namely Thai, Khòm, Tham-Lao, and Old Lao scripts. This multiple-text manuscript is about many topics such as story of the magic formula, how to remove one's bad luck through the performanc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Lao, Pali, and Thai
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 31 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1123/1
Title:: Wat Cet Riw Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The Cet Riw collection is small, compromised of all the texts digitised here: three medical texts, which by their nature also include astrology and charts relating astrological configurations...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Mon, Pali, and Thai
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 238 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1123/1/3
Title:: Cet Riw Thai Text 1
Scope & Content:: Accordian-style folding book (parabaik) of unknown provenance and topic. Written in a mixture of Thai and Khom (Thai-style Khmer writing). All the Cet Riw manuscripts were kept together in a wooden box, so presumably all are on the same topic - medical treatment. Extent: 1 accordian paper books...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1123/1/4
Title:: Cet Riw Thai Text Black Paper
Scope & Content:: Thai language manuscript, probably of medical texts. Kept in a box with the other Cet Riw manuscripts, which were about medical treatment. Last photograph is of the box the four Cet Riw manuscripts were kept in, which gives a date of 1280 Buddhist Era (1918 AD), though the description of content...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Pali 207
Title:: Extracts from the Tipitaka and Mahābuddhaguna มหาพุทธคุณ
Scope & Content:: Fols. 1-2: Extracts from Vinaya pitaka (Pārājikā), Fols. 3-5: Extracts from Sutta pitaka, Fols. 6-19: Extracts from Abhidhamma pitaka, Fols. 20-26: Sahassanaya, Fols. 27-48: Mahābuddhaguna, part 1, Fols. 49-64: Mahābuddhaguna, part 2. Illustrations: 15 pairs of illustrations depicti...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 71 folios

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