Archives West Finding Aid

This collection contains miscellaneous manuscripts collected primarily as examples of Buddhist book formats. All are undated but probably date to the nineteenth or early twentieth century. Available are a palm leaf manuscript written in an unidentified South Asian script, bound in red and gold painted boards; one leaf from a Burmese kammavaca manuscript, written in Pali square script on a lacquered palm leaf or cloth; a parabaik from Myanmar (Burma) with folded sheets and red-stained edges and cover; a parabaik on thick black paper with text written in white, probably from Thailand; and two facsimiles of Tibetan or Nepalese loose-leaf books with wooden covers (pecha).