Research & Article

Tai Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at the Library of Congress
By Ryan Wolfson-Ford
Published on 12 May 2024
Inscription and Manuscript
Location of original sources
Journal of the Siam Society (JSS) Vol. 107 No. 2 (2019)
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Tai Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at the Library of Congress
This article provides a comprehensive survey of Tai manuscripts held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., USA. New items in the collection are highlighted. Some sense of the scope of the collection is also provided. The collection represents an important resource for researchers and the scholarly community. More importantly, it is a vital historical repository of the varied, but interrelated textual traditions and mental worlds of the Tai peoples.