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Project / Collection Fragile palm leaves digitisation initiative Subject Didacticisms Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP1150/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1
Title:
Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation
Scope & Content:
A private library of Pali and vernacular Burmese palm-leaf manuscripts from Burma. Custodial history: The manuscripts were collected by Peter Skilling over the past several decades. Additional date information: Manuscripts included in the collection were created/copied between the 17th–20th ce...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
70296 TIFF images

2. EAP1150/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/5
Title:
Milindapaññā nissya sac ca kāḥ pre
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Mixed texts. Nissaya: Paracanonical text. Ff. ca-kāḥ-pre written in prose. Some leaves illegible. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript; ca-lo (missing in the beginning). Condition of original material: Goo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
281 TIFF images

3. EAP1150/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/8
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Different dates and scribes for the 2 texts not belonging to the same ms. Inscribed cotton ribbon, broken in 3 pieces. Wrapper: printed cotton black, pink flowers, lined with a piece of bath towel!. E...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
270 TIFF images

4. EAP1150/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/13
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red and dark red covers not fitting this ms. Red lac. leaves and small portion of gilded leaves with vermilion band. Different size leaves; mixed, miscellaneous. Also other unidentified texts including one referring to manudhammasat, one jātaka, one romantic verse and one Burmese cosmology. Leav...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
124 TIFF images

5. EAP1150/1/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/15
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vrmilion band. Fly title piece does not belong to this ms. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19th centuries Keywords: Buddhis...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
201 TIFF images

6. EAP1150/1/32

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/32
Title:
Somanassa vatthu
Scope & Content:
Single-text palm-leaf manuscript. Two red lacquer covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Inscribed fragment of woven cotton ribbon, 217 cm. A vernacular prose text comprised of 99 narrative episodes from the life of the Buddha and that of the previous buddhas adapted from Buddhist commentari...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
142 TIFF images

7. EAP1150/1/43

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/43
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Mixed palm-leaf manuscript combining parts of two manuscript bundles. The former part might have been a single-text manuscript made of a single fascicle. The second part of the bundle is comprised of a fascicle belonging to a multiple-text manuscript and containing three works on Pāli grammar. P...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
166 TIFF images

8. EAP1150/1/58

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/58
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves. Assumed some missing texts in the middle according to foliation breaks. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf Manuscript. Condition of original material: Good condition. Additional date information: Copied c. 18–19th centuries Keywords: Didacticisms, Remove, Salutation, Law and...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese and Pali
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
190 TIFF images

9. EAP1150/1/60

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/60
Title:
Milindapaññhā vatthu
Scope & Content:
Title in upper right margin of recto folios; translation of Pali text into Burmese; Presumed complete; Red lac. covers. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Inscribed, decorated, woven silk ribbon, 493 cm. Published catalogue gives no details of the subject matter of the text. Extent: 1 Palm Leaf...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
311 TIFF images

10. EAP1150/1/70

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1150/1/70
Title:
Mixed Bundle
Scope & Content:
Red lac. covers; one slightly scratched. Gilded leaves. Decorated woven cotton ribbon. Extent: 1 palm-leaf manuscript. Additional date information: Copied c. 19th century Keywords: Buddhism, Didacticisms. This manuscript contains the following 4 texts: EAP1150/1/70/1: Maṇi ratanā puṃ kyamḥ ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Burmese
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
245 TIFF images