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Project / Collection Recalling a Translocal Past: Digitising Thai-Mon palm-leaf manuscripts Subject Birth Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. EAP1123/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/2
Title:
Wat Sirimongkhon Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. The Wat Sirimongkhon collection is large. This was one of the few collections which we able to go through almost completely because a Mon monk who could read Mon helped us do so. Most of the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
242 TIFF images

2. EAP1123/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/2/6
Title:
Wat Sirimongkhon Unknown Text(s)
Scope & Content:
Palm leaf manuscript, seems to concern divination and what people born on different days will be like. First and tenth faces start with Pali NAMATTU, suggesting that there are two texts. My main motivation for digitization was that it seems to be of late provenance and that it was, unusually, wr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

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