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Add MS 27370
- Record Id:
- 032-001608327
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001608327
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x00013b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189195137.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 27370
- Title:
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Drawings from the Traiphum ไตรภูมิพระร่วง and the Ten Birth Tales
ทสชาติ
- Scope & Content:
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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 Low as an envoy of the Penang government by the Raja of Ligor [Nakhon Si Thammarat], in South Thailand in 1824
Illustrations: Illustrated throughout, partly copied from drawings in possession of Lieutenant [later Lt. Col.] James Low of the Madras Army.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Central Thai Manuscripts Digitization
Thai, Lao, Cambodian Collections - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001608327
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001608327
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 19 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27370 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Thai
- Scripts:
- Khmer
Thai - Start Date:
- 1824
- End Date:
- 1824
- Date Range:
- 1824
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: European paper
Dimensions: various sizes
Script: Some captions in Thai script. Folio 19 is in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script used in Thailand
Binding: Mounted in an album, 550 mm x 770 mm
- Custodial History:
- From the collection of Lt. Col. James Low of the Madras Army
- Source of Acquisition:
- British Museum, 1973.
- Publications:
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James Low, 'Extracs from the journal of a political mission to the Raja of Ligor in Siam', Journal of the Asiatic Society in Bengal, vol. 7 (1838) pp. 583-608
Henry Ginsburg, 'Low in Thailand. The James Low album of Thai paintings', FMR Franco Maria Ricci, no. 13 (July/August 1985) pp. 125-140
- Exhibitions:
- Thai Manuscripts, British Library, London, January 1983 - November 1983
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)