Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
Wellcome Collection
19th century
MS Sinhalese 349
Incomplete palm-leaf manuscript in verse and prose, technical instructions on iron smelting in Sri Lanka during the 18th century. This local industry is dead now. It is d...
Wellcome Collection
1872 ce. (October 19)
MS Sinhalese 88
A panegyric on King Sri Vikrama Rājasimha, the last king of Sri-Lanka (no title, author or date).
Wellcome Collection
19th century
MS Sinhalese 79
This covers areas like nädi or pulse beat (Tamil text copied in Sinhala script with Sinhala paraphrase), fevers and their treatment, with pills and other prescriptions.
Wellcome Collection
Śaka 1777 (1855 ce.)
MS Sinhalese 31
A Sinhala Buddhist text known as ‘The string of offerings’ (to Buddha) by Buddhaputra Mahāthera in 1266. It is an encyclopedic Sinhala prose work.