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The pages are uncoloured and the text is written in black Burmese round  script. The borders of the pages are illuminated. The cover of the manuscript is lacquered and gilded relief moulded  (Burmese. thayo) card with glass inlay (Burmese. hman-zi shwei-cha) and foliate decorative motifs.\r\n\r\nThe title on the front cover translates to \"Song in glorification of the Holy and High Buddha.\" The manuscript is  understood to be a volume of verses (Burmese. ei-gyin) extolling the glorious achievements of past ancestors of the Konbaung Dynastyy as well as cradle songs, music and eulogies to be recited and sung to the eldest daughter of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat on the occasion of piercing her ears 10th day after in the Burmese year 1243 (1882).","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"card","id":"x30344"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"ash","id":"AAT11786"},{"text":"thitsi lacquer","id":"x33294"},{"text":"gilt","id":"x30367"},{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"}],"techniques":[{"text":"paper making","id":"AAT54060"},{"text":"lacquering","id":"AAT53796"},{"text":"forming","id":"AAT53098"},{"text":"colouring","id":"AAT53043"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Lacquered (Burmese. thitsi) and gilded paper and card with thayo (relief ornament) and hman-zi shwei-cha (shaped  lamin or coloured looking glass inlay). The paper is made from the pulped bark of Paper Mulberry Tree (Latin.  Broussonetia papyrifera).","categories":[],"styles":[{"text":"Konbaung","id":"x30379"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2025PE7290","2025PE7289","2025PE7291"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"008","id":"THES403828"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Manuscript","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Mandalay","id":"x30359"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Burma","id":"x30037"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Myanmar","id":"x30037"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1882","earliest":"1882-01-01","latest":"1882-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Col Horace Barnet","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This folding manuscript was presented by Mingyi Mindin Maha Sithu, a prominent Grand Minister and Wundauk (or Vice-Minister) of the  Konbaung Dynasty (1752–1885), to the eldest daughter of King Thibaw Min (r. 1878–1885) and Queen Supayalat (r. 1878–1885). It was  given in celebration of an important ceremony held on the occasion when the child was placed in an emerald cradle on the 10th day after  the new moon of the month of Nadaw in the Burmese year 1243 (December 1882 CE) at the Mandalay Palace, Myanmar.\r\n\r\nAccording to museum records, this manuscript was taken from the private apartments of Queen Supayalat at Mandalay Palace after it was  captured by the British during the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885\r\n\r\nGiven by Colonel Horace Barnet, 9 Lincoln Hoise, Basil Street, London, S.W.3. This acquisition information reflects that found in the  Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.\r\n\r\nSee V&amp;A Registered Paper 1918-3770M","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Folding manuscript (Burmese. parabaik); paper and card with lacquer, gilding and inlay; Myanmar, 1882","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Lowry, <font -u>Burmese Art; Victoria and Albert Museum</font>;  \r\nLondon Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1974; p. 45\r\nYi Yi:  \"Life at the Burmese Court Under the Konbaung Kings\".  Journal of the Burma Research Society\r\nVol. XLIV;  June 1961; Part 1; p. 85 (Dept  Library U Box IX)"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.128-1918"],"accessionNumberNum":"128","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1918,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-06-01","recordCreationDate":"2001-11-13","availableToBook":true}}