book (documentary artefacts)

Palm leaf book, possibly of Sanskrit verses, with plain wooden covers. It has two apertures, through which a length of cord passes, holding the leaves in place. There is a handwritten inscription on a label adhered to one of the covers, presumably in the hand of Frederick Horniman, reading: 'A Cingalese Book: Written on slips of the / leaf of the Tallipot tree, brought from Ceylon by my friend / Mr. Jas. Miller, & presented by him to me, on the 15 of April 1845. / being about a month after his arrival in England. A friend of Mr. M, / who could read the language, told him it was a collection of / Recipes for the care of the bites of venomous reptiles &c.'.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
886.2
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 473 mm x 59 mm x 25 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
palm leaf; wood; string
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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