Cleveland Museum of Art
Buddhist Manuscript
- Date
- c. 1700
- Medium
- Covers: Gum tempera on wood; pages: charcoal on palm leaves
- Culture
- Sri Lanka
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Palm leaf material is still used for manuscripts in Sri Lanka. The palm leaves are prepared first by boiling them, drying them in the sun, and then rubbing them with oils. Scribes then use a metal stylus to incise the text. Then charcoal powder is wiped across the pages, filling in only the inscribed lines. The text is written in Sinhalese script.
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