Unidentified historical treatise, 1837
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
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Language of Materials
Shan
Physical Description
paper
Finding aid date
2016-02-24 16:51:35+00:00
Geographic
Repository Details
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