Two useful resources for Shan manuscripts

The following book from B.J. Teriwel has been extensively scanned and
made available (for free) on-line --including many illustrations and
colour photographs of manuscripts.

They reserve the catalogue of MS and a few odd pages (to encourage you
to buy the book) --but, I note, the book has no English title!

The cover is beautiful, but simply bears a full paragraph of text in
old Shan script --so "good luck" finding this in a library or
bookstore --as nobody knows how to transliterate Shan, and, indeed
there is no "standard" for this language.

The shortcut URL is below stated first, followed by the full text of
the URL reference (both will lead to the same "place"):

http://tinyurl.com/34eyd6

http://www.google.ca/books?id=uPr2RmV_yy0C&pg=PA13&dq=%22shan+script%22&sig=uUgCBU-MRNdClGKQiXE6uGs8pps#PPA29,M1

I would also mention that I have lately read "The History and
Development of the Shan Scripts" by Sai Kam Mong.

Although it does not excel at everything it attempts, this is an
excellent book.  I recall a line from Strindberg:
   "Why did they give him all those medals?"
   "For his outstanding merits."
   "Has he no faults?"
   "He has, but no medals for them."

As I already knew a great deal of the orthography (and history) of the
adjacent plots of land, but little-to-nothing about Shan itself, it
was highly enjoyable for me to read Sai Kam Mong's account, as it
filled in a considerable blank at the centre of the "world" that I
have been studying (i.e., the Shan and Wa do seem to stand at a kind
of fulcrum, around which Burma, Laos, etc., all turn).

As alluded to, it is not "without faults", but it deserves acclaim nevertheless.

E.M.