Manuscript

Story about monks. Corrections in red ink. Section of a compendium of sutta material, perhaps meant to be used for magic-religous purposes. In each case there is a brief Pali text followed by text in a Lao dialect. The rest is in Thai (Lanna). Two lateral holes with tie cord. Letters blackened. Red marks cover ornamental devices before amd after titles. Red marks also inserted at various points in the text, and used to cover over, or erase, several syllables. Some mistakes indicated by a vertical stroke above the letters in question, which strokes have been blackened in. Edges of folios, particularly on the right side of manuscript, frayed and mangled. Part of text on right side of first two folios colored in red and gold. Folios very soft and pliable. Writing neat, with the lines of some letters doubled, but not ornamental or elegant. For contents of texts in Sections A and B see G. P. Malalasekra, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names. The suttas of the other sections are not noted by Malalaskera, and their text is not represented in Frank Lee Woodward, Pali Tipitka in Concordance, arr. and ed. by E.M. Hare, 3 vols. (London: published for the Pali Text Society by Luzak, 1952-1966). Written in 5 lines per leaf. Foliated with letters beginning with ri. Leaves of palm leaf with two central holes approximately 22 cm apart; red lacquer edges; edges frayed and damaged; formerly tied through left hole with string in a loop. Written in Thailand in the 1830s.