Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts
[SBB-PK] Ms. or. fol. 4131
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
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Common data
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| Classmark | |
| ↳ current | Ms. or. fol. 4131 |
| ↳ alternate | Editor classmark : N° 00158 |
| 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 | B. face A p. 3, 1: namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā sambuddhassa |
| End of the text | E. face B p. 40, 5: … anubandhā honti bhikkhu saṃgha bvā / cap phraḥ sūth |
| 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 : The cover is in thick mulberry brown paper, very damaged and eaten by insects |
| Writing material | |
| ↳ Material | bark |
| ↳ State of preservation | The manuscript is in good condition except the cover |
| Number of folios | 52 p. |
| Dimensions | 67,5x14,5 |
| Number of lines | 5 |
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| ↳ Ink | black |
| 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 eight pairs of water colour illustrations representing a legendary famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell
Face A – 5 pairs of illustrations (p. 3-4; p. 11-12; p. 47-48; p. 49-50; p. 77-78) Face B – 3 pairs of illustrations (p. 39-40; p 43-44; p. 46-47) |
| Remarks | Very nice and neat Khom (a variant of Khmer script often used in central Thai religious manuscripts) and Tv͝a kṣīen (Thai) scripts in black ink pen by the same hand on both recto and verso. The text is written in 2 columns and sometimes in 1 column |
| 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_00000193 |
| MyCoRe ID | KOHDKhmerMSBook_manuscript_00000193 (XML view) |
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