Details

Subject(s)

• Māleyya [Browse]
• Buddhist legends—Thailand [Browse]
• Buddhist literature, Thai [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Thai—Specimens [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—Thailand—19th century [Browse]

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A mid-nineteenth century illustrated folding funeral book, or book of merit, containing a collection of Buddhist texts in the Pali and Thai languages, including the legend of Phra Malai. The manuscript is accordion-folded, written on heavy paper (probably made from mulberry bark), comprising 48 leaves (the final few leaves blank). The manuscript is penned in a single hand in Khmer script and completed on both recto and verso, with eight pairs of watercolor illustrations, a number extensively embellished with gilt, and one fully illustrated double-page panel depicting scenes in Hell, totalling seventeen illustrations.
• 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.).

Binding note

Upper and lower covers and all edges lacquered in dark brown.

Language note

In Thai and Pali.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

967707475

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