Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley
Content Description
Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley, consisting of 13 palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka. There exists little information on their nature and their content, but they are probably Buddhist works in the Pali language (the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism) dating from the mid 18th to late 19th century CE, and were collected by Nigel Seeley in the mid-late 20th century. Most of them have interesting and varied decorative wooden covers.
Dates
- Creation: mid 18th-late 19th century
Language of Materials
Pali language
Conditions Governing Access
Open, but please contact the repository in advance.
Extent
13 manuscripts
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated in 2019. Accession no. SC-Acc-2019-0107.
Processing Information
Catalogued in November 2020 by Aline Brodin, using information supplied by Andrew Grout.
Source
- Title
- Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley
- Description rules
- Isad(G)2
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk