Accession number
MS M.1028
Object title
Palm leaf manuscript with Buddhist texts (MS M.1028).
Display Date
19th cent.
Created
Sri Lanka, 19th cent.
Binding
Two contemporaneous matching brass covers, each decorated with a lion and two busts within vines.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Glazier, 1981.
Description
286 leaves (1 column, 4 lines), bound : palm leaf ; 37 x 352 mm
Provenance
Henry S. Glazier; purchased in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1933 along with another palm leaf manuscript in the William S. Glazier Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library MS G.71).
Notes
Ms. buddhist texts, written in Sri Lanka, 19th century.
Script
Singhalese
Language
Pali
Resources
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