Theraveda Buddhist Text
1800
Physical Qualities
Palm leaves, wood, lacquer, pigment, gold, 5.8 × 50.5 × 7 cm. (2 5/16 × 19 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jessie Manion
Object Number
1926.11.2
Pali script on bamboo leaves; one wood cover covered in brownish-dark red lacquer, leaves have gilt edges. The text is written in the standard, rounded Burmese script.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1926; Jessie Manion