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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0065 00019
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/628302
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Private Collection of Bunthat Sukhathivong
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Anonymous
Subject matter:
Horoscope
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in Gregorian:
1900-1999
Place of copying:
Luang Prabang
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Mulberry paper
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
48.2 x 29.2 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
48.2 x 29.2 cm
Text block dimension:
50.0 x 25.0 cm
Number of pages:
38 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
Yes
Manuscript condition:
Poor
Description of manuscript content:
The texts depict tables of the local calendar and drawings. The content relates to fortune-telling pertaining to the good and bad days for performing daily activities. For example, the day of Kao kòng (nine piles) is considered good for cutting clothes or for sewing and starting work in the rice fields but not good for performing a cremation ceremony. The last part of the text tells about reckoning the horoscope of a man and a woman who are going to get married. The manuscript is mostly used by a monk or a ceremonial master of the village, who is knowledgeable and respected by the people in order to give advice to them for performing a ceremony and other activities.
Other notes:
Both the recto and the verso sides of a bi-folio are written. However, most of the folios are partly cut out on their reverse sides by a scissor, remaining only the cover. It seems likely that this undated manuscript was written in the twentieth century.

Item 1 - Title in Native script:
[ໂຫຣາສາດ]
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
[Horāsāt]
Item 1 - Title in English script:
[Horoscope]
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Lao
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