Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts
[SBB-PK] Hs. or. 6563
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
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Common data
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| Classmark | |
| ↳ current | Hs. or. 6563 |
| ↳ alternate | Editor classmark : N°00020 |
| Record type | manuscript |
| Format | leporello |
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Content and history of the book
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| Language | Pali Thai language |
| Script | Khmer |
| Region | Southeast Asia |
| Completeness | complete |
| Beginning | B. Face A, 2 v, 1: nano tassa bhagavato harahato sammā sambuddhassa... |
| End of the text | E. Face B, 52 r, 5: sentences in Thai |
| Subject matter | Buddhism |
| Content | Phra Malai, or Māleyya, a Buddhist saint, was believed to have lived in Aruradhapura, Sri Lanka, during the reign of the legendary Sinhalese King Duṭṭhagāmaṇi (101-77 B.C.).
Phra Malai Kham Luang (Thai: พระมาลัยคำหลวง, pronounced [pʰráʔ mālāj kʰām lǔaŋ]) is the royal version of a Thai legendary poem of the Sri Lankan Arhat Maliyadeva whose stories are popular in Thai Theravada Buddhism |
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Physical description
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| Binding | Material : 2 mulberry covers painted in black; 69x14,5 |
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| ↳ Material | bark |
| ↳ State of preservation | the manuscript is in very good condition |
| Number of folios | 106 p. |
| Dimensions | 69x14,5 |
| Number of lines | 5 |
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| ↳ Ink | black |
| Remarks | Very nice and neat scripts in Khom script written in black ink pen. The manuscript is completed on both recto and verso, in Thai style with dark backgrounds and floral borders in gilt and water colour, with eight pairs of water colour illustrations representing a legendary famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell |
| 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_00000094 |
| MyCoRe ID | KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000094 (XML view) |
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