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Or 6453 B
- Record Id:
- 032-003375422
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003375422
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043451431.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6453 B
- Title:
- မဟာရာဇဝင် Mahā rājavaṅʿ
- Scope & Content:
-
History of the kings of Pagan.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burmese Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003375422", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 6453 B: မဟာရာဇဝင် Mahā rājavaṅʿ" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003375422
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003375422
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 372 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Burmese
- Scripts:
- Burmese
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Palm leaf, 10 lines per side. The leaves have gilded and red lacquered edges and are bound between thick wooden boards gilded and lacquered red on the sides.
Dimensions: 480 mm x 60 mm
Script: Burmese
Wrapper: The wrapper (size 400 x 515 mm) wascreated by intertwining bamboo slats with various coloured hand-spun cottonyarns in white, red, grey, black, and blue like a chain stitch pattern andinterlacing bamboo slats with red and blue cotton fabric by hand. Then, usingwhite and yellow factory-made cotton fabric to sew the hem of the textileproperly. Two small pieces of whitecotton fabric are sewn together by factory-made threads at the left and right ends wrap the manuscript comfortably. The pattern is commonly found among the Taiethnic in Shan state and Northern Thailand, where they intertwine yarn withbamboo to produce a stronger textile than normal fabric to protect palm leaf manuscripts.
- Custodial History:
- Col. Eyre Collection 1902.
- Source of Acquisition:
- British Museum, 1973.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)