Wellcome MS Sinhalese 88.

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Wellcome MS Sinhalese 88. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Srivikrama rājasimha prasasti. This text does not indicate a title or author or date of composition, but is a panegyric on King Sri Vikrama Rājasimha, the last king of Sri-Lanka.

Physical description

3.7 x 41 cm

Notes

Palm-leaf; ff. i, 41 (1—41); 3.7 x 40.1cm, three quatrains to a side; ff. 1 a—11, and ff. 23-41 in neat medium hand, ff. 12-21b in smaller fast-written (cursive) hand of another scribe, with four quatrains to a side; good copy; dated 1872, October 19.

References note

For full description see 'Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine' / K.D. Somadasa. London : Wellcome Trust, 1996

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