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DREAMSEA Project No.:

DS 0065 00001

Institution:

HMML; DREAMSEA

Surrogate Format:

Digital

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628284

Country:

Laos

City (Province):

Luang Prabang

Name of collection:

Private Collection of Bunthat Sukhathivong

Right to Left?:

No

Current Status:

In situ

Sponsor:

Monk Khamda Sukhathivong from Mano village, Luang Prabang

Subject matter:

Medical Treatise

Copyist:

Khamda Sukhathivong from Mano village, Luang Prabang

Copying date in native date:

A moeng khai year

Copying date in Gregorian:

1947

Place of copying:

Luang Prabang

Script:

Tham Lao

Writing support:

Palm-leaf

Watermark?:

No

Countermark?:

No

Manuscript cover?:

Yes

Binding?:

No

Manuscript cover dimension:

20.2 x 4.0 cm

Manuscript paper dimension:

20.2 x 4.0 cm

Text block dimension:

18.5 x 3.0 cm

Number of pages:

130 pages

Rubrication?:

No

Illumination?:

No

Illustration?:

No

Manuscript condition:

Poor

Description of manuscript content:

The manuscript contains many kinds of medical herbs and healing process of illness, e.g. to cure the disease of asthma, colic, scabies, nosebleed, headache, stomachache, day or night blindness, difficult urination, blister, haggardness, the baby died in the stomach, fevers, supporting hair growth, anti-cancer and etc.

Colophon:

ລານທີ່ 64 ໜ້າ 1: ເມິງໃຄ້ ປີ 1947 ເດືອນ 8 ເພັງ ວັນ 4 ມື້ເຕົ່າສະງ້າ ຍາມພະດາຂຽນແຜນຢາ ຣາຄາ 15$. Folio 64 on the recto side: a moeng khai, AD 1947, on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month, the fourth day of the week (Wednesday), a tao sanga day. Pha (monk) Da is the scribe of this manuscript entitled Phaeng Ya. The pice is 15$

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Item 1 - Title in Native script:

ແຜງຢາພະດາ

Item 1 - Title in Roman script:

Baeṅ yā Phra Dā

Item 1 - Title in English script:

Medical treatise of Monk Da

Item 1 - Author:

Anonymous

Item 1 - Language:

Lao