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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0067 00008
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628313
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Pak Ou (Luang Prabang)
Name of collection:
Private Collection of Mai Khamfoe Namavong
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Anonymous
Subject matter:
Literature
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in Gregorian:
1900-1999
Place of copying:
Pak Chaek village
Script:
Tham Lue
Writing support:
Industrial paper
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
20.3 x 16 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
20.3 x 16 cm
Text block dimension:
17 x 15.5 cm
Number of pages:
152 pages
Number of blank pages:
2 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Poor
Description of manuscript content:
The text contains the Tai Lue songs was written in poet style and continues without titles. The content describes love of a mother to her child. She left her message to her child before dying in a large rice field.
Other notes:
The manuscript was sewn of three school notebooks together. The front and back covers are missing, and some pages of the beginning and last parts are missing as well.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
[ຂັບລື້]
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
[Khap Lü]
Item 1 - Title in English script:
[Lue song]
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Lue; Lao
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