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1. EAP1123/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5
Title:
Wat Makhām Ratburi Collection
Scope & Content:
This is one of six collections of Thai-Mon palm leaf manuscripts digitised by the EAP1123 project team. Sizeable collection kept in two wooden cabinets to the side of the main hall. Collection was mostly palm-leaf manuscripts in Mon and Pāḷi on the usual religious subjects. Manuscripts were kep...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
303 TIFF images

2. EAP1123/5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/3
Title:
Mekasan
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: လိက်မေကသန်. Transliterated title: LIK MEKASAN. Mon-language didactic or literary text. Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript, approximately approximately 68 faces. Condition of original material: Leaves are old, frail and warped, though mostly legible. Written in slightly unusual, not...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:
33 TIFF images

3. EAP1123/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/1
Title:
Kyāṁ Thup
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: ကျာံထုပ်. Transliterated title: KYĀṀ THUP. Appears to be a work of literature about a crocodile. Incomplete. Extent: 1 palm leaf in two bundles, approximately 57 pages total. Second bundle missing pages incomplete. Condition of original material: Fairly legible. Has been bitten...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
32 TIFF images

4. EAP1123/5/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/4
Title:
Mūlakammathān
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: မူလကမ္မထာန်. Transliterated title: MULAKAMMATHĀN. Mon-language manuscript about meditation techniques. Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript, approximately 42 faces. Condition of original material: Legible, though the leaves are old, stiff, and somewhat warped. Some discolouration. C...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
21 TIFF images

5. EAP1123/5/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/7
Title:
Mahākapphina Jātaka
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: သၠပတ်ဇာတ်မှာကပ္ပိန်. Transliterated title: SLAPAT JĀT MHĀKAPPIN. Mon-language text of the Jātaka tale of the monk Mahā Kapphina, one of the disciples of the Buddha. Manuscript is in three bundles, all with identical colophon information. Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript in 3 bundl...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
55 TIFF images

6. EAP1123/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/2
Title:
Golden Nib Flower
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: လိက်ဍောင်ကှေ်ထဝ်. Transliterated title: LIK ḌOṄ KEH THAW. Work of literature which has been reprinted in book form. Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript, approximately approximately 128 faces. Condition of original material: Leaves old, frail, with much breaking off and disintegratio...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:
64 TIFF images

7. EAP1123/5/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/6
Title:
Catta Mūlananda Kumāra
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: သၠပတ်စတ္တမူလနန္ဒကုမ္မာ. Transliterated title: SLAPAT CATTA MŪLANANDA KUMMĀ. Appears to be a historical poem written in couplets; work of history and literature. Makes use of such modern ethnolinguistic terms as "Mon" and "Bamā" (Burman). In two bundles, the second significantly s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
31 TIFF images

8. EAP1123/5/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/8
Title:
Characteristics of Learning (?)
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: သၠပတ်လက္ခဏပညာ. Transliterated title: SLAPAT LAKKAṆAPAÑÑĀ. Mon-language didactic text with introduction in Pāli. (Question mark in title because not sure of best English rendering). Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript, approximately 68 faces. Condition of original material: Excellent...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
39 TIFF images

9. EAP1123/5/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/5
Title:
Plans of the Shwedagon Pagoda
Scope & Content:
Title in Mon: သၠပတ်အစဳရေင်ကျာ်လ္ဂုင်. Transliterated title: SLAPAT ACĪREṄ KYĀK LGUṄ. Appears to be a bilingual Pāli-Mon text about the building of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Includes some Burmese-language terms and names. Does not appear to be complete. Extent: 1 palm leaf manuscript, approximatel...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon and Pali
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
18 TIFF images

10. EAP1123/5/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1123/5/10
Title:
Wat Makhām Ratburi Random Colophons etc
Scope & Content:
A random sampling of colophons from the collection. Four leaves of random colophons. The fourth and final image appears particularly old and makes reference to two donors who were brothers. NOT A TEXT!. Extent: 4 leaves. Condition of original material: Conditions vary. Final image is from a pa...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mon
Date Range:
Early 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images