Re: Fw: Pali canon

 

Dear Members,

The message below comes from a museum official in Poland and is addressed to
the group. Is anyone here interested in seeing or attempting to figure out
what this palm leaf MSS in Sinhalese script is about? Please contact me for
scans of some of the pages.

Best wishes,

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Agata Drejer" <agata.drejer@...>
To: <palistudy-owner@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:04 AM
Subject: Pali canon

> Dear Sirs,
>
> I have already sent an enquiry to the Pali text society, and as they are
> not able to help me, they suggested that I can try to contact your group.
> In the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Poznan, Poland we have a
> small part of Pali canon written on palm leaves, which we received from an
> anonymous donor several years ago. We only know that this is written in
> Synhalese script in Pali language, and now we are trying to obtain some
> more details.
> I would like to ask if you could help us with some questions concerning
> this document. We are interested particularly in the approximate age of
> this object (is it contemporary or of some historical value?), its
> origins,
> its content (is it possible to determine which part of Pali canon itit?).
> Please find enclosed a sample scans of the object (all the document has
> c.a. 40 palm leave "pages").
> Thank you for considering my request.
>
> Best regards
>
> Agata Drejer-Kowalska
> Archaeological Museum in Poznan
>