A Burmese Parabaik (manuscript bound in stiff mulberry paper...

A Burmese Parabaik (manuscript bound in stiff mulberry paper) apparently, a medical/tattooing/magical manuscript likely early nineteenth century with diagrams of magic squares used to make astrological calculations, and with a striking picture of a 'Belu' an ogre or guardian spirit. Folded accordion style, 18 pages including the interior of the covers. The text to the inside of the rear cover confirms that this a compilation of magic charts and medical tattooing. Faint, but just about discernible lettering on the front cover appears to further provenance the item giving a possible name for the practitioner who owned this book. In any case the item would yield a rich harvest to specialist scholarship. The parabaik is in pretty good order, showing 'tidelines' within suggesting that the book was at one time exposed to damp, however this never interferes with the legibility of the text or diagrams. Additionally, to the verso of is a drawing of Rahu, a Hindu deity who is prominent in Burmese astrology. All in all, a very good example of a Burmese magical manuscript heightened by the addition of striking occult figures

Estimate:£800

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