Mystery manuscripts

[Dietrich Christian Lammerts]

Hi,
The second black paper manuscript ('parabaik' in Burmese) is Burmese. It
contains several dates from different months in ME1213 (1851CE). The top
leaf records the value of a marriage payment by husband to wife, and perhaps
this is the end of a judicial decision of some sort. The bottom leaf is a
list of settled debts.

Black parabaiks were typically used as notebooks for various jottings such
as these, rather than as supports for more literary texts.

Christian

38 Inya Rd
Kamaryut
Yangon, Myanmar
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