Accession number
MS G.71
Object title
Buddhist texts (MS G.71).
Display Date
19th cent.
Created
Sri Lanka, India, 19th cent.
Binding
Two original beveled boards, painted with a rinceau design and connected with a cord running through two holes in the leaves.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
267 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : palm leaf ; 55 x 400 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Henry S. Glazier in Sri Lanka in 1933 and given to his brother William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York in the same year; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. of Buddhist texts; written in Sri Lanka, 19th century.
Script
Singhalese
Language
Pali
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