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Ola leaf is a palm leaf used for writing in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and in fortunetelling in Southern India [1] and Sri Lanka. The leaves are from the talipot tree, a type of palm, and fortunes are written on them and read by fortune tellers. [ 2 ]
The collections of the National Library of the Philippines consist of more than 210,000 books; over 880,000 manuscripts, all part of the Filipiniana Division; more than 170,000 newspaper issues from Metro Manila and across the Philippines; some 66,000 theses and dissertations; 104,000 government publications; 3,800 maps and 53,000 photographs. [14]
One of them was published by Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (GOML), Madras (now Chennai) in 1951 with 167 pages and the other published by Saraswathi Mahal Library (SML), Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu in 2004 with 306 pages. Both books are based on old palm-leaf manuscripts with the same title composed in the form of verses and both contain ...
A 19th-century palm-leaf manuscript called kammawa from Bagan, Myanmar. In Myanmar, the palm-leaf manuscript is called pesa (ပေစာ). In the pre-colonial era, along with folding-book manuscripts, pesa was a primary medium of transcribing texts, including religious scriptures, and administrative and juridical records. [20]
The collections consist of historical documents such as Papal bulls, royal decrees, rare Filipiniana prints, historical treatises, addresses, sermons, novenas, catechisms in many Philippine languages, national periodicals, and academic records of all educational institutions in the Philippines during the Spanish period.
It is one of the largest palms with individual specimens having reached heights of up to 25 m (82 ft) with stems up to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in diameter. [5] It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large, palmate leaves up to 5 m (16 ft) in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m (13 ft), and up to 130 leaflets.
A piece of music history is up for auction. AMY ROBACH: "This manuscript was written by Mozart in 1772, when he was just 16. A Jewish musician smuggled it out of Nazi Germany. Her daughter, who is ...
The Oriental Research Institute & Manuscripts Library has over 70,000 works in 30,000 copies mainly of palm leaf manuscripts. In addition, some paper manuscripts , a few copper plates , writings on Bhurjapatra ( birch bark ), Agarutvak (the bark of Aquilaria malaccensis ) and textiles are also found in the collection.