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This accordion-folded, illustrated manuscript was most likely produced in the culturally Tai regions of Northeast India or Northern Myanmar (Burma). A compilation of several texts, it is partly in Burmese script and partly in Tai (also called Lik Tai). It begins with a Burmese script recording a Pali language Buddhist formula that is repeated on most Tai books of this type. Other passages are also quite clearly Buddhist in nature, so it is likely a series of religious fragments brought together in a single volume and then copied. It largely written in Lik Tai with occasional Burmese phrases seamlessly incorporated into the text. It also includes a diagrammatic representation of the pre-Buddhist Tai calendar, diagrams suggestive of divination, and several illustrations representative of Tai style painting of the nineteenth century.
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