Single-text manuscript containing a scriptural text. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Red pigment decoration on the sides. Complete. Wooden covers painted with red pigment.
A bilingual translation and commentary on the Sīlakkhandhavagga (The Division Concerning Morality), the first part of the Dīgha-nikāya collection in the Sutta-piṭaka. Extent and format of original material: 1 bundle of 247 inscribed and 10 uninscribed folios.
Single-text manuscript that likely had formed a part of a larger bundle originally. Contains bibliographic work. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Gilded folios with red pigment band and fine-line painted design in the middle. Incomplete. Cov...
"The Mirror of the Piṭaka" is a work belonging to a genre of scriptural catalogs (pitakat thamaing). The latter were a technical genre of Burmese literature that defined the texts that the royal court and other pious patrons of the sāsana were supposed to transmit and maintain. The origins and i...
Single-text manuscript containg a part of a scriptural text. Extent and format of original material: 2 files. Physical characteristics: Palm leaf. Undecorated folios. ? Complete. Has no covers. Author(s) of original material: Guṇaraṃsālaṅkāra. Scribe of original material: Novice (kui raṅʻ) K...
A beginning portion of a bilingual translation and commentary on the Nemi jātaka (jātaka no. 541) which, in its turn, is a division of the Dasajātaka nissaya, a nissaya on the ten great jātakas. The present manuscript identifies this nissaya as a work composed by Guṇaraṃsālaṅkāra from the villag...
Multiple-text manuscript containing two documents. Based on the details of the script and the layout as well as on the likelihood that the manuscript originally was a part of some personal archive of contemporary official records, the suggested provisional date for the manuscript is between 1790...