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Samut Kamphi Racharangsatthi sangkhro wa duai laksana dhatu rok borichet, 1838

Also known as สมุดคัมภีร์ฺราชรังสฤทธิ์สังเคราะห์ะว่าด้วยลักษณธาตุโรคบริเฉด, 1838

by Phra Bamroerat

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: Thai
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Medical treatise (Tamra ya) in Thai by a royal physician; the manuscript's title translates as A royal comprehensive guide to chemistry containing the elements and characteristics of all the known and observed diseases. Bhamuan (encyclopedic guide) of the known diseases that covers the 22 types of characteristics of diseases. According to the colophon, the text also provides descriptions of medicines that prevent diseases caused by ghosts.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the description and “Ghosts” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Ghosts”· in subject

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

1 item (55 folios) : paper ; 11 x 35 cm; Also known as Phra Bamroe Rachabaedya; physician of Rama III (Nangklao); composer of the Wat Pho medical inscriptions (Woodward).; Dated 1838 (Woodward).; Folios colored black, with yellow script, except for colophon written in chalk; folded concertina- or accordion-style, including upper cover.; In Thai.; Upper cover with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper; no lower cover.; Written in 4 lines per leaf.

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  • ark:/81431/p31j97746

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  • Colenda collection: Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9959457443503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 1
  • Provenance: Formerly owned by Leonard Unger, ambassador to Laos (1962-1964), Thailand (1967), and China (1974-1979), and his wife Anne Louise Axon Unger; probably purchased by Anne Unger in 1967.; Gift of Hiram W. Woodward, 2013.; Possibly formerly held in the one of the royal libraries (Ho Luang), based on the script (Ajarn Niyada Laosunthorn, Royal Institute).; Sold as part of the collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Unger at auction at Harris Auction Galleries (Baltimore), 11 October 1998, lot 11, to Hiram W. Woodward.; Unger, Anne Louise Axon, -2014, former owner.; Unger, Leonard, 1917- former owner.; Woodward, Hiram W., former owner.
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