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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0062 00274

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/627978

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Vat Manorom Sattharam

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Medical Treatise

Copyist:

Anonymous

Place of copying:

Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Industrial paper

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

No

Binding?:

No

Manuscript paper dimension:

21.0 x 16.5 cm

Text block dimension:

19.0 x 15.0 cm

Number of pages:

88 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

The text tells about many kinds of medical herbs and the healing process. The conditions of sickness include a gost dwelling in a person, bitten on by a poisonous snake or a seam, amblyopia, blisters, deaf, stomachaches, and etc. The traditional medicine and the kinds of sickness which use the specific part of a plant or tree as medicine substances for curing. On the left margins of each leaf contain the text describe the kinds of the sickness. The medical substances can use all part of a plant or tree, for instance, the root, bark, leaf, flower, fruit, seed, and so forth. This medical treatise like this mostly used by a practitioner of traditional medicine who also uses the medicine with magic spells while curing the patient.

Other notes:

The pages of the first and last parts are missing.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ຕໍາຢາພື້ນເມືອງ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Tamlā yā bün müang

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Medical treatise

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Lao