Book

Museum number:
9-12941
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
A 19th century manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in the archaic Malayazhma script; bound between dark brown jackwood ("plav", Artocarpus integrifolia) covers that have been pierced and secured with a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). A book of Malayazhma grammar; this script has been out of use for some time and manuscripts of this type have not been produced since circa 1940. Width 8 cm, length 29.7 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Kerala State, India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Books
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #37: Southeast Asian Studies Department (UC Berkeley) (February 3, 1977–June 29, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Book, accession number 9-12941, described as A 19th century manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in the archaic Malayazhma script; bound between dark brown jackwood ("plav", Artocarpus integrifolia) covers that have been pierced and secured with a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). A book of Malayazhma grammar; this script has been out of use for some time and manuscripts of this type have not been produced since circa 1940. Width 8 cm, length 29.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Book, accession number 9-12941, described as A 19th century manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in the archaic Malayazhma script; bound between dark brown jackwood ("plav", Artocarpus integrifolia) covers that have been pierced and secured with a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). A book of Malayazhma grammar; this script has been out of use for some time and manuscripts of this type have not been produced since circa 1940. Width 8 cm, length 29.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Book, accession number 9-12941, described as A 19th century manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in the archaic Malayazhma script; bound between dark brown jackwood ("plav", Artocarpus integrifolia) covers that have been pierced and secured with a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). A book of Malayazhma grammar; this script has been out of use for some time and manuscripts of this type have not been produced since circa 1940. Width 8 cm, length 29.7 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-12941, described as A 19th century manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in the archaic Malayazhma script; bound between dark brown jackwood ("plav", Artocarpus integrifolia) covers that have been pierced and secured with a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). A book of Malayazhma grammar; this script has been out of use for some time and manuscripts of this type have not been produced since circa 1940. Width 8 cm, length 29.7 cm.

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