Palm leaf manuscript with Buddhist texts
Accession number:
MS M.1028
Title:
Palm leaf manuscript with Buddhist texts
Created:
Sri Lanka, 19th cent.
Binding:
Two contemporaneous matching brass covers, each decorated with a lion and two busts within vines.
Credit:
Gift of Henry S. Glazier, 1981.
Description:
286 leaves (1 column, 4 lines), bound : palm leaf ; 37 x 352 mm
Provenance:
Henry S. Glazier; purchased in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1933 along with another palm leaf manuscript in the William S. Glazier Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library MS G.71).
Notes:
Ms. buddhist texts, written in Sri Lanka, 19th century.
Script:
Singhalese
Language:
Pali
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