Kammavaca, ancient monastic ordination book. Burma.

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Kammavaca, ancient monastic ordination book. Burma.

Name: Kammavaca, ancient monastic ordination book. Burma.
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: 4RDHNMMZP0
Price: 1200 EUR
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1.200 €

Period 19th century

Style Asian Arts

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Early 19th-century Burmese ordination manuscript, complete with 16 "olles" (tallipot or latan leaves) and 2 covers.
Kamavaca are Buddhist texts or canons governing life in monasteries, a Pali term describing a collection of passages from the Tipitaka (Tripitaka, Triple Basket: The Theravada Buddhist Canon) relating to ordination, the bestowal of robes and other rituals of monastic life. It is usually commissioned as a work of merit and presented to monasteries when a son enters the Buddhist order as a novice or is ordained a monk.
The Pali text is written in black lacquer in ornate Burmese characters known as "tamarind seed" script, also known as "square" script, which differs from the usual round Burmese script. The 16 double-sided boards are red lacquered, with finely incised decoration and gold ornamentation.
The two wooden covers of this copy are still held in the remnants of a monastic robe, and the whole is pierced with a hole, once used for thread binding.
Provenance: Estate of collector and art dealer Claude de Marteau
Sold with certificate of provenance.
Very good condition. Very rare signs of wear.
L 56 cm x W 11 cm x H 4.5 cm

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