Southeast Asia Digital Library

Prediciting the future, divining fortunes, treatises on the fetus, fertility amulets, signal of human, auspicious days to build buffalo pens, astrology by gender, treatises on female illness, fortune for days and months, auspicious days, amulets for building houses, treatises marrigae, treatises on the devil king

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manuscripts (document genre)

1800-2000

This manuscript was written by Mr. Thanh Kim Long (uncle of Mr. Duong Diep's wife) in 1994 and given to Mr. Duong Diep.

86 unnumbered pages

Cham manuscript, bound by threads, losing cover, written in Chinese ink on cement paper with many pages stuck. The manuscript is written from right to left. The manuscript is water-damaged, old. The manuscript has lines drawn in pencil. Pages 1 and 2 are torn at the upper margins and halfway up the spine. Pages 18 to 22, and pages 77 to 78 are torn from the manuscript. The manuscript has 1 erased page (page 57).

The topics of the manuscript are fortune, magic, religion, astrology, medical treatments, marriage. The content is about prediciting the future, divining fortunes, treatises on the fetus, fertility amulets, signal of human, auspicious days to build buffalo pens, astrology by gender, treatises on female illness, fortune for days and months, auspicious days, amulets for building houses, treatises marrigae, treatises on the devil king.

Digitization of this manuscript was funded by the British Libaries' Endangered Archives Programme through the project, Digitisation of the Endangered Cham Manuscripts of Vietnam (no. EAP698).

Chamic languages

Magic
Religion
Astrology, Vietnamese
Therapeutics
Marriage

Magic
Religion
Astrology, Vietnamese
Therapeutics
Marriage