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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Sinhalese Ola

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0271

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Sinhalese Ola

Date(s): c1760

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Depositor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

An ola is a leaf or strip of a leaf of the palmyra, traditionally used in Southern India and Sri Lanka for writing on. It is also a letter or document written on such a leaf.

The Sinhalese are the native inhabitants of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Sinhalese ola, c 1760, comprising a volume of palm leaves, containing a manuscript treatise on diseases, symptoms and treatments.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Pali

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

A similar ola was lost in 1941.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Obtained by Andreas Nell MD of Kandy, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, for the donor Casey A Wood MD.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.