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 Illustrations: Ten pairs of illustrations in good quality
Kitāb al-Sayyid al-jalīl al-mu‘aẓẓam al-faḍīl allādhī shayyada arkān al-Islām wa-daḥaḍa min al-kufr al-a‘lām wa-ḥallal wa-shar‘a al-ḥallāl wa-ḥarama al-ḥarām كتاب السيد الجليل المعظم الفصيل الذي شيّد أركان الإسلام ودحض من الكفر الأعلام وحلّل وشرع الحلال وحرم الحرام al-Tanūkhī, Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh التنوخي، جمال الدين عبد الله
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Druze treatise by the Druze Shaykh Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Allāh al-Tanūkhī (الأمير جمال الدين عبد الله التنوخي; d. 1479).
Bot sūat mon (texts for chanting and sūtra) with extracts from the Vinaya Pitaka and the legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk who travelled to heaven and hell. A colophon at the end of the text gives the date B.E. 2423 (1880 CE). Illustrations: Illustrations of figures from the Buddhist myth...
Manual containing yantra designs for various purposes including tattooing, the production of protective clothes and battle standards. Illustrations: Yantra designs on all folios
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Madura. f.297v: colophon in Arabic and Javanese (read by T. Pudjiastuti): kala tahun ja.s.ra.nga wulan eni tanggal ?22 dinten soma panca wala kumala, 'in the year ?jasranga the month eni, on the ?22, on Monday, [the wuku] panca wala kumala', with the name 'Abd al-...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Daghistan. The colophon on f. 277v, which names the scribe as Zayn al-Din and the place of writing as Sabah in Brunei, has been shown to be a later (probably modern fraudulent) addition (Gallop 2017: 120). Text frames of 2 ruled red lines. Verse (ayah) markers ar...
Extracts from the Tipiṭaka and 'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย
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Fols. 1-7: Extracts from the Tipiṭaka Fols. 8-89: 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 Fols. 90-91: Extract from the Tipiṭaka Illustrations: 15 pairs of ...