Re: Burmese mss ?

Eisel,

I had a look at the first page but I'm unfamiliar with the script. Some of
the letters look Burmese though such as the 't' and 'p'. The letters appear
to have been written with a brush and are aesthetically pleasing too. If the
passage is in Pali, is there any chance you could transliterate the first
line or two into Velthuis? We could try and identify the passage.

Jim

> > A colleague on another list has asked for confirmation that the mss
> > reproduced here is Burmese ...
>
> It isn't Burmese, the script is Lao ("Lao-Tham"/"Lao-Dhamma"), which
> effectively means that it comes from no further west than Northern
> Thailand (i.e., it certainly doesn't look Shan).
>
> It also doesn't look very old --notwithstanding the holes bored away
> by the termites.  I would presume it's of entirely modern origin.
>
> E.M.

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