Ending 18th Jun, 2023 18:00
Asian Art | Timed Auction
A BURMESE PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT
OFFERED ON BEHALF OF PROSPECT BURMA TO BENEFIT EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS
A BURMESE PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT
19th / 20th Century
The pages decorated with gilt-painted edges and housed between red-lacquered wood covers, the text written in Pali script to both sides of the pages,
48.5cm long
THIS LOT IS OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE
無底價
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PROVENANCE:
Collection of Prospect Burma, UK.
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The use of palm leaves as a medium for manuscripts has a long tradition, predating the use of paper by centuries. Rectangular, dried, cut and smoked Palmyra palm leaves, or peisa, were used for historical, literary and religious texts. Manuscripts were stored in monastic and royal libraries, but with the advent of printed texts in the 19th century the production and quality of manuscripts such as these declined.
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