Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts
[SBB-PK] Ms. or. fol. 4132
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
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Common data
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| Classmark | |
| ↳ current | Ms. or. fol. 4132 |
| ↳ alternate | Editor classmark : N° 00159 |
| 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 |
| Title | |
| ↳ in Ms. | Chhātn2 bra mālai lem1 hnịṅ’ ṇa dān° lèv° 3 cap paripūrrṇā |
| Completeness | complete |
| Beginning | B. p. 3-4, 1: tassa bhagavato arahato sammā sambuddhassa |
| End of the text | E. p. 88 (in Thai) l. 3: … lèv2 kha hai2 dap2 co2 cāṃ2 reṅ kè1 phraḥ niph bhāp pă caḥ yo hotu |
| 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 covers very damaged |
| Writing material | |
| ↳ Material | bark |
| ↳ Colour | black |
| ↳ State of preservation | p. 77-90 on the right side, one part eaten by insects
p. 1-2 traces of humidity on the right side |
| Number of folios | 90 p. |
| Dimensions | 68,5x14 |
| Number of lines | 5 |
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| ↳ Ink | gold |
| ↳ Characteristics | The text is written in gilt letters on black paper |
| 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 six pairs of water colour illustrations representing a legendary famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell.
A – 4 pairs of illustrations (pp. 3-4, 9-10; 49-50, 75-76) B – 2 pairs of illustrations (pp. 18-19, 46-47) |
| Remarks | Very nice and neat Khom (a variant of Khmer script often used in central Thai religious manuscripts) and Tvā kṣīen (annotation script) scripts in gold ink pen by the same hand on both recto and verso; writing in 2 columns with floral decorations in between lines |
| 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_00000192 |
| MyCoRe ID | KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000192 (XML view) |
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