Burmese Kammavaca Buddhist Manuscript

by Burma - Buddhist Manuscript

A$2,250 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Burma . 19th Century . Stock ID #221466 Heavily gilded and red and black lacquered kammavaca with shwezawa work, 13 round-edged leaves loose in gilt-decorated red lacquered wooden boards rubbed , each board punctured but lacking the binding pin or cord, 10 x 54.4 cms; the leaves 9.2 x 53.5 cm, five lines of black lacquered text in Pali using Burmese script on each double-sided finely gilt decorated leaf, the text on the inner face only of the terminal

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