Accession number
MS S.21
Object title
Buddhist texts.
Display Date
1809.
Created
Burma, 1809.
Binding
Two 19th-century molded papier mâché covers, lacquered and gilded, inset with colored glass circles over foil and smaller chips of mother or pearl, the beginning and ending paper leaves pasted onto the inside of each cover.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
141 leaves (1 column, 9 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 180 x 404 mm.
Provenance
Sold at Bloomingdale's (White oblong label pasted inside front cover, printed Bloomingdale's Far East No. 72391, in pencil at upper label margin the number 00051, at center 285); E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. buddhist texts, written in Burma, dated 1809.
Decoration: foliage and flower drawing and decorative motifs in black ink on the opening folio of the manuscript.
The leaves are pasted together along their longest sides and accordion folded.
Decoration: foliage and flower drawing and decorative motifs in black ink on the opening folio of the manuscript.
The leaves are pasted together along their longest sides and accordion folded.
Script
Burmese
Language
Pāli
Century
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