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Project / Collection Recalling a Translocal Past: Digitising Thai-Mon palm-leaf manuscripts Place Pegu, Asia

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1123/3
Title:: Wat Saladaeng Neua Collection
Scope & Content:: This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The temple has a formal collection of religious texts housed in a separate library, raised on stilts to protect from flooding, to the back of the compound. Custodians had no key, but we could...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Mon
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 168 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1123/3/6
Title:: Dhammaceti, 5th Section
Scope & Content:: Title in Burmese: ဓမ္မစေတီပဉ္စမဝဂ္ဂ. Title in Thai: ธมมเจดีปัญจมวัคค. Title in Mon: ဓမ္မစေတဳပဉ္စမဝဂ်. Transliterated title: DHAMMACETĪ PAÑCAMA WAG. Palm leaf manuscript of what appears to be the fifth section of the history of Dhammacetī, a king of Pegu. Text is incomplete and missing leaves...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Mon
Date Range:: Early 19th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

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