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.