Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-1970
• Dates of Creation:mid 18th-late 19th century
• Name of Creator:
  Seeley, Nigel, 1942-2004 (Forensic scientist and Head of Conservation at the National Trust)
• Language of Material:Pali
• Physical Description:
  13 manuscripts

• Scope and Content

  Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley, consisting of 13 palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka. There exists little information on their nature and their content, but they are probably Buddhist works in the Pali language (the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism) dating from the mid 18th to late 19th century CE, and were collected by Nigel Seeley in the mid-late 20th century. Most of them have interesting and varied decorative wooden covers.

• Access Information

  Open, but please contact the repository in advance.

• Acquisition Information

  Donated in 2019. Accession no. SC-Acc-2019-0107.

• Archivist's Note

  Catalogued in November 2020 by Aline Brodin, using information supplied by Andrew Grout.

• Subjects

  Palm-leaf manuscripts

• Personal Names

  Seeley, Nigel, 1942-2004 (Forensic scientist and Head of Conservation at the National Trust)

• Genre/Form

  Pali literature

• Geographical Names

  Sri Lanka

  Buddhism

  Pali language