Manuscript

Elementary lesson book. Manuscript consists of one long heavy piece of bark paper folded in accordion style. the paper is colored black and the writing is in yellow ink. On the front cover there appears in Thai the title "na ton lem sang k kh," "first page, book 2, k-kh," and in English, in white ink: "For Miss Elizabeth Royce from E. R. Bradley," and "Vol. 2nd." On the inside cover there is written in white ink, "This paper is manufactured of the tree, the ink from a yellow stone, whiting and gum, and it is written with a bamboo pen. This volume contains a part of the tables forming the Elementary lessons." At the top of the first page there is wriitten in English in white ink,"A part of the table with the final B. pronounced P." The text contains three long listings of words, in the traditional method of teaching Thai to school children, and three accompanying reading lessons. Written in 8 lines per folio, folded concertina- or accordion-style, including covers. The text corresponds to the latter part of a famous alphabetic primer known as Prathom Ko Ka (or Pathom Ko Ka). Though the title on the flyleaf page states only Ko Ka (an alternative and abbreviated title of Pathom Ko Ka) the manuscript can be taken as Prathom Ko Ka Volume II.