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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0063 00243

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628254

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Chomphet (Luang Prabang)

Name of collection:

Vat Pak Lueng

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Anonymous

Subject matter:

Medical Treatise

Copyist:

Anonymous

Place of copying:

Vat Pak Lueng, Chomphet district

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

29.5 x 4.5 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

29.5 x 4.5 cm

Text block dimension:

26.8 x 3.9 cm

Number of pages:

74 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

The text contains various kinds of medical herbs and healing processes. 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 describing the kinds of the sickness. Medical substances can use all parts of a plant or tree, for instance, the root, bark, leaf, flower, fruit, seed, and so forth. This medical treatise like this is mostly used by a practitioner of traditional medicine who also uses the medicine with magic spells while curing the patient.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ໜັງສືຢາທັງຫຼາຍ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Naṅsü yā daṅ lai

Item 1 - Title in English script:

The book of medicines

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Pali; Lao