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Description: | Palm-leaf manuscript. Pali ms in Burmese 'tamarind-seed' script - a Kammavacaca. Made of laquered palm leaf, decorated in the red and gold shwe-zawa technique typical of Kammavaca and set within wooden cover boards. The decoration on the latter is now very rubbed; the interior face is plain red. The next leaf, correctly, is fully decorated on the outer surface with knotted strapwork which makes cartouches (four) within which are figures holding lotus blossoms. Inner face with text with further figured decoration in the margins. Outer face of the next leaf with the same arrangement, while the inner face has text running right across the leaf. All the leaves are numbered (12 in total). | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.64617 |
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