Skip to main content

Unidentified historical treatise, 1837

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/8/93

Scope and Contents

Shan silk paper manuscript, 220 x 500 mm, 26 lines to a folio, 22 sheets. Khamti Shan script. The sheets are sewn at the top into an orange flowered cloth and tied round with a thin red cord. The first folio has description in Khamti Shan, and in Burmese, 'Written by two pupils of the Shwei-kyaung gaing supporting Hsaya'. According to the Burmese colophon on f. 19-20, two novices named Nandamala and Maung Yin Muneinda copied the manuscript in B.E. 1199 (1837 A.D.) and gave it to the A-yei baing (district officer).

Dates

  • Creation: 1837

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Language of Materials

Shan

Physical Description

paper

Finding aid date

2016-02-24 16:51:35+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

Contact:
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR United Kingdom