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Phra Malai
This Phra Malai manuscript is written in Cambodian Mul script with some Pali scripture excerpts. This manuscript consists of the following illustrations: a pair of devas on either side of the page (fol. 2, 4-11), food on the left and preaching on the right (fol. 31), a lotus scene (fol. 32), heavenly beings paying homage to Phra Malai (fol. 46), food on the left and possibly a sexual scene on the right (fol. 47), a hell scene (fol. 65), a scene depicting the age of evil with people fighting (fol. 66), corpses, four men and a women, a house and eight figures on the right, one holding a knife (fol. 81), and a monk and a corpse (fol. 82).
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Mr. Yoshie Shinomoto, Monkton, MD [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1993, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 1995 | Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Measurements
Overall: 5 3/8 x 26 3/4 in. (13.7 x 68 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Yoshie Shinomoto, 1993
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.833