EAP1150/1/9

Single-text palm-leaf manuscript being the first bundle of what might have been a five-bundle set. Plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. Gilded leaves with vermilion band. Bundlemark. This manuscript originally was the first bundle of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ containing volumes one to nine. Of these only volumes four to nine currently survive (as suggested by manuscript bundlemark, volume two was misplaced already by the early twentieth century at the original location and volumes one and three must have been misplaced before the manuscript made it into FPL collection or during the cataloging at FPL). In its full extent, Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ is a 38-volume work (organized into five palm-leaf manuscript bundles) belonging to Burmese genre of “great chronicles” that was compiled at the royal court of Ava to serve as an official chronicle of the Konbaung dynasty (1752-1885). It commences with the appearance of the universe in the beginning of the world-cycle and the sequence of eleven Mahasamata kings and continues to trace the lineage of the kings of Majjhimadesa, Tagaung, Thayekhitaya, Pagan, Pinya, Sagaing, Ava, Taungngu/Hanthawady, Inwa, and Konbaung (up to King Badon-min).

Extent: An incomplete bundle of 171 inscribed and 1 uninscribed palm-leaf folios organized into six fascicles. Two plain teak covers with gilding and vermilion band on edges. One bundlemark.

Condition of original material: Incomplete manuscript, 97 inscribed folios (ff. ka-jha) missing.

Custodial history: (owner of the manuscript) = Vak ma cvat kyoṅḥ.

Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied c. 1865

Keywords: Buddhism, History.

This manuscript contains the following 6 texts:

EAP1150/1/9/1: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 4 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 4]

Description: Volume four of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events from the eleventh to the twelth centuries.Extent: A fascicle of 29 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. jhā [4] - ṭū [33]).Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied c. 1865

EAP1150/1/9/2: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 5 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 5]

Description: Volume five of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events from the twelth to the late thirteenth centuries.Extent: A fascicle of 25 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṭe [34] - ḍe [59]).Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied 1865

EAP1150/1/9/3: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 6 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 6]

Description: Volume six of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events of the fourteenth century.Extent: A fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ḍai [59] - ṇo [85]).Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied 1865

EAP1150/1/9/4: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 7 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 7]

Description: Volume eight of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events of the early to the mid-fifteenth century.Extent: A fascicle of 25 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ṇau [85] - thau [110]).Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied 1865

EAP1150/1/9/5: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 8 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 8]

Description: Volume nine of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events of the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries.Extent: A fascicle of 38 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. thaṃ [110] - nā [145]).Condition of original material: The foliation in the fascicle is wrong, after folio thaṃ it reverts to folio thā and duplicates folios thā to thaṃ, then continuing to folio thāḥ.Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied 1865

EAP1150/1/9/6: Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ 9 [Mhan‘ nan‘ʺ mahārājavaṅ‘ to‘ krīʺ 9]

Description: Volume ten of Mhan nanḥ mahārājavaṅ tau krīḥ covering the events of the late fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.Extent: A fascicle of 27 inscribed palm-leaf folios (ff. ni [146] - phu [175]).Additional date information: Composed in 1829-1831, copied 1865