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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12167
Title:: Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:: 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. Used as a manual for fortune telling and divination....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1750-1850
Extent:: 44 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12401
Title:: 'Catukanipata-anguttaranikaya' จตุกนิปาดองคุตฺตรนิกาย, 'Sattanipata' สตฺตนิปาด and Summanasathi สุมฺมณสที
Scope & Content:: A: 1: 'Chatukanipata angkhuttaranikaya phuk ton'. On leaf 18 'Chatukanipata angkhutaranikaya phuk ton thangmuan mi sip 5 phuk kapkan'. Leaf 5 damaged. (Includes a handwritten note by Henry Ginsburg) 2: 'Chatukanipata angkhutaranikaya phuk thuan 2'. (Includes a handwritten note by Henry Ginsbu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1818-1874
Extent:: A: 11 bundles, B: 7 bundles, C: 3 bundles

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12524
Title:: Paññāsajātaka = ปัญญาสชาดก
Scope & Content:: Royal edition of Pannasa Jatakas (ปัญญาสชาดก) Illustrations: Gilt front and back leaves for every bundle, and gilt edges throughout. Each leaf following a front leaf has two oval illustrations; one on the left showing a vihara, one on the right showing the royal seal of King Mongkut (Rama IV) d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 1851-1868
Extent:: 308 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13276
Title:: 'Winaiyakhamphira' วิไนยคมฺภิร
Scope & Content:: 'Winaiyakhamphira', leaves are numbered out of order and contents are fragmentary. Leaves 1-24: 'Khammaphirawinai phuk ton', k-khwa. Leaves 25-47: 'Winaiyakamphira phuk thuan 3', ng-cham. Leaves 48-83 contain chan-chen (out of order) and ngan-ngwan, tan-toen, thin-thoen (mixed and out of order)....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 93 leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13365
Title:: Laws กฎหมาย
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a legal text, incomplete. On folios 24-38 there is a horoscope manual (phrommachat) with illustrations on every folio, which may have been added later.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 77 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13389
Title:: 'Ratchathirat' = ราชาธิราช
Scope & Content:: Early history of the Mon, copied from an older manuscript dated 1775 A.D.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 396 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13650
Title:: Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:: A horoscope manual with coloured drawings showing the twelve years of the animal cycle calendar in two series. Created during the reign of Rama V (King Chulalongkorn), but before end of the 19th century. Illustrations: 28 pages with coloured illustrations
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Thai
Date Range:: 1868-1900
Extent:: 75 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13652
Title:: Elephant treatise ตำราช้าง
Scope & Content:: A treatise on mythical and natural elephants in khlong verse. With some mantra texts in Sanskrit. Illustrations: 37 illustrated folios. fol. 3: Ganesha, the son of Shiva fol. 4: Erawan (Sanskrit: Airavata; Thai: เอราวัณ), the carrier of Indra, with two hermits, Thewakam on the left and Thewap...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit and Thai
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 49 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13703
Title:: Extracts from the Tipiṭaka
Scope & Content:: Extracts from the Tipitaka traditionally used for funerals. Fols. 1-2: Vinayapiṭaka - Parivāra Fols. 3-4: Vinayapiṭaka - Suttavibhanga - Pārājika Fols. 5-7: Suttantapiṭaka - Dīghanikāya - Brahmajālasutta Fols. 7-8: Dhammasanganī Fol. 9: Vibhanga Fols. 9-10: Dhātukathā Fols. 10-12: Puggal...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pali and Thai
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 81 folios

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