Antique Burmese Gilt Lacquered Kammavaca Manuscript Antique Hand Painted

Description

Antique Burmese Gilt Lacquered Kammavaca Manuscript, consisting of 2 lacquered wood binding boards and 6 double sided folios of lacquered cloth with black, red and gold leaf. This Kammacava manuscript is highly ornamental with thickly applied lacquer and gilded shwe zawa decorations. The Buddhist ordination text is in Pali written in ornate black “tamarind seed” Burmese square script. A Kammavaca of this type is commissioned by the devout, as a work of merit to be presented to monasteries when a son enters the Buddhist order or becomes ordained as a monk. The text usually is the monastic code of discipline.
Condition: One leaf has a chipped corner and the covers show wear. Otherwise in nice condition. See pictures for details.
Overall: 22 inches long x 5 in. wide
19th century.