Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian collections

via the British Library Asian and African studies blog, 07 November 2022: A Thai scholar is currently researching the Southeast Asian manuscript textiles in the collection of the British Library.

A Chevening Fellowship is currently being hosted for twelve months by the Library’s Asian and African Collections department with the aim of researching and cataloguing manuscript textiles in the Southeast Asian collections. The Library holds about 3000 manuscripts from Southeast Asia, forming the largest and most significant collection of Southeast Asian manuscripts in the UK. Highlights include illustrated paper folding books and gilded manuscript chests from Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand, rare palm leaf manuscripts from Cambodia, Laos and northern Thailand, royal letters in Malay from the courts of the archipelago, some of the earliest known Batak divination manuals from Sumatra, as well as unique royal letters and edicts from Vietnam and Thailand.

Source: Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian collections – Asian and African studies blog