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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0064 00001

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628280

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Pak Ou (Luang Prabang)

Name of collection:

Private Collection of Khamsavaeng Saiyasian

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Nan (ex-monk) Phat

Subject matter:

Medical Treatise

Copyist:

Nan (ex-monk) Phat

Copying date in native date:

A kap mao year

Copying date in Gregorian:

1963

Place of copying:

Pak Chaek

Script:

Tham Lue

Writing support:

Mulberry paper

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

Yes

Manuscript cover dimension:

23.5 x 16.5 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

23.5 x 16.5 cm

Text block dimension:

18 x 15.5 cm

Number of pages:

40 pages

Number of blank pages:

6 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Good

Description of manuscript content:

The manuscript contains texts of various kinds of medical herbs and about the healing process of children who take these herbs when getting fever. The manuscript was written by Nan (ex-monk) Phat from Pak Chaek village in Tham Lü script in 1963. The writing was starting on two sides.

Colophon:

Front cover folio: ໜ້າທັບພາຍເຄົ້າ[…] ວ່າແປງປານໃຈ [..] ໜານຜັດຂຽນປີກາເໝົ້າ ປີ ພັນ 9 ຮ້ອຍ 6 ສິບ 3 ເດີນ ສິບ ອອກ 5 ຄໍ່າ ພະຫັດ ທີ ຊາວ 5 ຂອງລາວ. This is the front cover […] changing like [my] heart […] Nan Phat wrote [this manuscript] in a ka mao year, AD 1963, on the fifth day of the waxing moon of the tenth lunar month, a Thursday, on the twenty-fifth according to the Lao calendar. ໜ້າພັບພາຍປາຍ ຊື່ວ່າ ຢາ ໜານພັດ ຂຽນໄວ້ຜວດຄົນທັງຫຼາຍ ໄຜຍັງເຈັບບາດໄຂ້ພະຍາດຮ້າຍແລ້ວຄ່ອຍເຂົ້າສູ່ຫາຢາ ຫື້ຫາຍພະຍາດໄຂ້. Back cover folio [The manuscript] is entitled Ya (Medicine), Nan (ex-monk) Phat wrote it for all people. Anyone who is seriously sick, may use this medicine. May his or her sickness be cured.

Other notes:

There are yellow marks at the beginning and at the end of each chapter.

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ຢາ ໜານພັດຂຽນໄວ້ຜວດຄົນທັງຫຼາຍ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Ya Nan Phat Khian Vai Phuat Khon Thang Lai

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Medicine, Nan Phat wrote it for all people

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Lue; Lao