Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts
[SBB-PK] Hs. or. 10613
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
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Common data
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| ↳ current | Hs. or. 10613 |
| ↳ alternate | Editor classmark : N° 00125 |
| 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 Thai |
| Region | Southeast Asia |
| Completeness | complete |
| Beginning | Face A, p. 4, 1: yan tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahato samma sambuddhena … |
| End of the text | Face B, p. 187, 5: 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 and Cambodian Theravada Buddhism. |
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Physical description
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| Binding | Material : Black lacquered covers |
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| ↳ Material | paper |
| ↳ Colour | yellowish-white |
| ↳ State of preservation | The book is heavily damaged by humidity; the second cover is heavily damaged by humidity on the right side from p.18 to p.49; traces of humidity on most of pages |
| Number of folios | 200 p.; text: face A, pp. 4-96, face B, pp. 101-187. |
| Dimensions | 66x14,5 |
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| ↳ Ink | black |
| ↳ Characteristics | The manuscript is accordion-folded, with a thick cover of black varnished paperboards lavishly illustrated with gilt floral decoration |
| Illustrations | The manuscript is completed on both recto and verso, in Thai style with dark backgrounds and floral borders in gilt and water colour, with nine pairs of watercolor illustrations, a number extensively embellished with gilt, totaling eighteen illustrations.
Face A: 7 pairs of lavish illustrations pp. 4-5; 6-7; 12-13; 14-15; 50-51; 52-53; 89-90 (damaged in the right edge) Face B: 2 pairs of lavish illustrations pp. 120-121; 152-153 |
| Remarks | Very nice and neat Khom (a variant of Khmer script often used in central Thai religious manuscripts) and Tv͝a kṣīen scripts in black ink pen by the same hand on both recto and verso Face A writing in 1 column; Face B writing in 2 columns |
| 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_00000107 |
| MyCoRe ID | KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000107 (XML view) |
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