Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts
[SBB-PK] MIK I 4240
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
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Common data
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| Classmark | |
| ↳ current | MIK I 4240 |
| ↳ alternate | Editor classmark : N° 00031 |
| Record type | manuscript |
| Format | palm leaf |
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Content and history of the book
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| Language | Khmer |
| Script | Khmer |
| Region | Southeast Asia |
| Title | |
| ↳ in Ms. | On the left side of the folio: neḥ khsatrā rāmker khsae 2 |
| ↳ Established form | The librarian wrote on the left corner of the first wooden cover: IC 31984 (11) Ream Kai II and the folio title: 11 I C 31984 |
| Completeness | unidentified |
| Beginning | B. KA r, 1: bvaṃ prāpp oy añ tịṅ phaṅ // oyh auv añ gat’ raval ... |
| End of the text | E. 23 v, 5: naeḥ sātrāry rīmker anak bhikkhu nitth cāri guṃ ṇar braḥ sāsnār"// |
| Subject matter | literature |
| Keywords | Literature, Ramayana, Reamker |
| Chapter headings / fascicle | Fascicle (khsae) 2 |
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Person data
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| Scribe | |
| ↳ other name form(s) |
Bhikkhu Nitth
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Physical description
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| Binding | Material : 2 plain wooden covers, 60x6,4 cm |
| Writing material | |
| ↳ Material | palm leaf |
| ↳ State of preservation | The manuscript is in poor condition with the edges of leaves very damaged, eaten by insects; the left hole is very damaged; corrections and adding in between lines in blue ink pen |
| Number of folios | 24; pagination with usual letters ka, kā, ki, kī, ku, kū, ke, kae, kai, ko, kauv, kaṃ, kāṃ, ka//, kha, khā, khi, khī, khu, + 3 leaves without pagination |
| Dimensions | 59x5 cm |
| Number of lines | 5 |
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| ↳ Characteristics | 1 blank leaf at the end; 1 cord left binds the leaves of different lengths; leaves are blackened |
| Remarks | Same handwriting with clumsy scripts in 'mūl' style probably carved by a novice; folio 23v, 3 last lines in ‘jrieṅ’ style, very obscure sentence but it gives some indication:
The text was carved by 'saṃdec braḥ dhamma' probably by Bhikkhu Nitth at village Sok in the monastery 'Mahāmuntriy' in the province Phnom Penh; A man named Tāt to express his gratitude toward his mother named Yin written in the middle of the folio title (saṅ gun anak maer yin) |
| Project part | KOHD Khmer Manuscripts |
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Technical data
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| Editor | Hélène Bru-Nut |
| Static URL | https://orient-kohd.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000035 |
| MyCoRe ID | KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000035 (XML view) |
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