Manuscript
34-19-1
From: Sri Lanka
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 34-19-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sinhalese | Buddhist |
| Provenience | Sri Lanka |
| Date Made | ca. 1823 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Talipat Palm Leaf | Palm Leaf | Ink |
| Iconography | Buddhist Literature | Vinaya |
| Inscription Language | Sinhalese Language | Sinhalese Script |
| Description | Comments: Two lateral holes. Written in ink in the right hand margin of the recto side of the fromd, "A page form a Buddhist Book.--100 years old, from Kandy, Ceylon. 3/14.'23." Written in ink in the left hand margin on the recto side of the frond, "This writing is Sinfalese, on Talipat palm leaf." Sinhalese palm leaf manuscript. Shinhalese; Sinhalese script. No date, scribe or title. Text: Buddhist Vinaya rules, perhaps taken from the Sinhalese book Sikhavalanda. Palm leaf, good condition. Two lateral holes. One folio, lettered ghe(?). 7 lines Lacks beginning and end. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Edward Cope Wood, 1934 |
| Other Number | M21 - Levitt Number |
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