Palm leaf manuscript with Buddhist texts

Accession number: 
MS M.1028
Title: 
Palm leaf manuscript with Buddhist texts
Created: 
Sri Lanka, 19th cent.
Binding: 
Two contemporaneous matching brass covers, each decorated with a lion and two busts within vines.
Credit: 
Gift of Henry S. Glazier, 1981.
Description: 
286 leaves (1 column, 4 lines), bound : palm leaf ; 37 x 352 mm
Provenance: 
Henry S. Glazier; purchased in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1933 along with another palm leaf manuscript in the William S. Glazier Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library MS G.71).
Notes: 

Ms. buddhist texts, written in Sri Lanka, 19th century.

Script: 
Singhalese
Language: 
Pali
Century: 
Classification: