[Burmese palm-leaf manuscript]. 114
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gold, Mineral, Palm leaf
Measurements
70 mm (Width) x 145 mm (Depth); 510 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Burma
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 3258184
Summary
Bibliographic description
Burmese palm leaf prayer-book, vermillion and gold edges to closely written leaves, the vermillion end boards with curved tops. Textile string threaded through. In notebook no.4, page 54 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seraphim 243. Palm Leaf Book vermillion & gold edges, boards with a hollow moulding of vermillion. 20" x 2" x 5¼" Burmese.'
Provenance
CPW Item 243 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 54