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1. Add MS 12261

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Title:
Sang Sinchai samut 1 สังสินชัย สหมุด ๑
Scope & Content:
Volume 1 of the Thai verse novel Sang Sinchai. (A similar version is known in Laos and Northeast Thailand as Sang Sinsai or Sinxay, and in the Mon literary tradition under the title Sangada). According to colophon on fol. 2 the manuscript was compiled right after the siege of the "Great City" ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1767-1796
Extent:

46 folios

2. Add MS 12262/A

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Title:
Sang Sinchai samut 2 สังสินชัย สหมุด ๒
Scope & Content:
Volume 2 of the Thai verse novel SangSinchai. (A similar version is known in Laos and Northeast Thailand as SangSinsai or Sinxay, and in the Mon literary tradition under the title Sangada). A colophon on f.42 mentions twograndparents, Ta Khong and Yai Mun (ตาคง ยายมูน), whocommissioned the manu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1767-1796
Extent:

45 folios

3. Add MS 12264

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Title:
Sang Sinchai samut 4 สังสินชัย สหมุด ๔
Scope & Content:
Volume 4 of the Thai verse novel SangSinchai. (A similar version is known in Laos and Northeast Thailand as SangSinsai or Sinxay, and in the Mon literary tradition under the title Sangada). The manuscript is thought to have been brought to the UK via Bengal by Sir John MacGregor Murray in 1797....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1767-1796
Extent:
41 folios

4. Add MS 19351

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Title:
Phrommachat พรหมชาติ
Scope & Content:
Fortune telling manual with drawings based on the Chinese zodiac, which relates each lunar month to the animals of the 12-year-cycle and their reputed attributes (earth, wood, fire, iron, water) as well as a male or female avatar (yin-yang), a plant and a number diagram. Fragment with some folio...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Burmese and Thai
Date Range:
1760-1853
Extent:

20 folios (paginated 1-39)

5. Add MS 27370

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Title:
Drawings from the Traiphum ไตรภูมิพระร่วง and the Ten Birth Tales ทสชาติ
Scope & Content:
Drawings of the cosmology and mythology of Siam, in colours and pencil. Some of these are connected with the Traibhumikatha, the Thai Buddhist cosmogony of heaven, earth and hell; some depict scenes from The Ten Birth Tales; others are astrological, while f. 18 is a drawing of the reception of L...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
19 folios

6. Foster 1056

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Foster 1056
Title:
Lacquered and gilt manuscript box from Northern Thailand
Scope & Content:
Wooden manuscript box for a folding book (samut khoi); decorated with gilt, lacquer and glass inlay, 19th century, Northern Thailand (Lanna)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 Item

7. Foster 1057

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1057
Title:
Manuscript cabinet from Thailand
Scope & Content:
Manuscript cabinet, 19th century Thailand. Wood, gilt, lacquer and glass inlay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850-1900
Extent:
1 Item

8. IO Pali 207

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Pali 207
Title:
Extracts from the Tipitaka and Mahābuddhaguna มหาพุทธคุณ
Scope & Content:
Fols. 1-2: Extracts from Vinaya pitaka (Pārājikā), Fols. 3-5: Extracts from Sutta pitaka, Fols. 6-19: Extracts from Abhidhamma pitaka, Fols. 20-26: Sahassanaya, Fols. 27-48: Mahābuddhaguna, part 1, Fols. 49-64: Mahābuddhaguna, part 2. Illustrations: 15 pairs of illustrations depicti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Thai
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
71 folios

9. Or 1044

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Or 1044
Title:
Sārasaṅgaha
Scope & Content:
Sārasaṅgaha ("Collection of the Essence"), bundles 1-13 (complete). A Pali text originally composed in the 12th–13th century by the Sinhalese monk Siddhattha Thera, a pupil of Buddhappiya Thera. Its themes include the aspiration to become a Buddha, shrines, meditation, theories on rain, wind, gen...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
312 folios in 13 bundles

10. Or 1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1245
Title:
'Vessantara Jataka' พระเวสสันดรชาดก
Scope & Content:
Vessantara Jataka, fragments. Vessantara-Jataka, Kumara-pabba and Maharaja-pabba only. "Jujako pi acutattapasena kathitamaggena yava caturassa pokkharanim tiram patva cintesi | ajattikasayanhe idani maddhi aranato agamissati matugamo hi nama danassa antarayakaro hoti svetassa aranagatakale ass...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

27 leaves of text

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