{"type": "genre", "value": "other", "key": "genre:other", "label": "Other · อื่น ๆ", "noun": "genre", "browseCol": "genre", "note": "Uncatalogued or mixed — awaiting classification.", "priority": false, "profile": {"count": 369, "priority": 0, "provinces": [{"value": "Phayao", "n": 56, "label": "Phayao"}, {"value": "Nan", "n": 54, "label": "Nan"}, {"value": "Phrae", "n": 43, "label": "Phrae"}, {"value": "Lampang", "n": 41, "label": "Lampang"}, {"value": "Chiang Mai", "n": 41, "label": "Chiang Mai"}, {"value": "Chiang Rai", "n": 32, "label": "Chiang Rai"}], "temples": [{"value": "Wat Sung Men", "n": 35, "label": "Wat Sung Men"}, {"value": "Wat Phra Koet", "n": 19, "label": "Wat Phra Koet"}, {"value": "Wat Lai Hin Luang", "n": 19, "label": "Wat Lai Hin Luang"}, {"value": "Wat Si Khom Kham", "n": 17, "label": "Wat Si Khom Kham"}, {"value": "Wat Si Sutthawat", "n": 14, "label": "Wat Si Sutthawat"}, {"value": "Wat Nong Bua", "n": 12, "label": "Wat Nong Bua"}], "scripts": [{"value": "tham_lanna", "n": 311, "label": "Tham Lanna · อักษรธรรมล้านนา"}, {"value": "tham_lao", "n": 17, "label": "Tham Lao · อักษรธรรมลาว"}, {"value": "thai", "n": 17, "label": "Thai · อักษรไทย"}, {"value": "shan", "n": 11, "label": "Shan · อักษรไทใหญ่"}, {"value": "tham_lue", "n": 9, "label": "Tham Lue · อักษรธรรมลื้อ"}], "languages": [{"value": "Pali and Lan Na", "n": 251, "label": "Pali and Lan Na"}, {"value": "Pali-Northern Thai", "n": 41, "label": "Pali-Northern Thai"}, {"value": "Monolingual Pali", "n": 34, "label": "Monolingual Pali"}, {"value": "th", "n": 10, "label": "th"}, {"value": "Pali and Tai Lue", "n": 9, "label": "Pali and Tai Lue"}, {"value": "Pali and Shan", "n": 7, "label": "Pali and Shan"}], "materials": [{"value": "palm_leaf", "n": 190, "label": "Palm-leaf · ใบลาน"}, {"value": "mulberry_paper", "n": 148, "label": "Mulberry paper (saa) · กระดาษสา"}, {"value": "khoi", "n": 7, "label": "Khoi paper · กระดาษข่อย"}], "date": {"min": 1754, "max": 1989, "dated": 82}, "samples": ["Ekasīti dutiyavaṇṇanā", "no title (143)", "no title (144)", "no title (146)", "Tholanisan", "no title (247)", "Thon pisu tai, Thon samanen tai, Thon khon cai tai, Thon phu nying tai, Thon kho", "Kampi sitthan"]}, "lede": "Other · อื่น ๆ accounts for 369 catalogued manuscripts. It clusters in Phayao (15% of the corpus for this genre), ahead of Nan and Phrae. Nearly all (84%) are written in Tham Lanna · อักษรธรรมล้านนา script. By support it leans to palm-leaf · ใบลาน (51%) over mulberry paper (saa) · กระดาษสา (40%). Dated witnesses run 1754–1989 CE (82 of 369 carry a date).", "findings": [{"slug": "visualdiagram-rich", "title": "Where the drawn tradition is thickest", "gloss": "Manuscripts carrying the most diagram pages — the yantra, cosmological charts, and talismanic figures that are drawn, not written."}, {"slug": "legibilitymachine-readable", "title": "Already legible to a machine", "gloss": "The manuscripts with the most recognised Thai text — the leading edge of the whole point: making a living tradition readable to a model and not only to a scholar."}], "authored": {"exists": true, "status": "published", "title": "Other", "see_also": ["genre:astrology", "genre:magic_ritual"], "body_html": "<h2>What this is</h2><p>This is not a genre. It is the <strong>backlog</strong> — the residue of everything the source catalogues could not place. Its raw labels say so plainly: <strong>58% &quot;Undetermined,&quot;</strong> 27% &quot;Miscellany,&quot; the rest &quot;Other&quot; or blank. Browse the titles and the problem is visible at a glance — most read <em>no title (349)</em>, <em>no title (467)</em>: manuscripts known only by their catalogue number, unread and so unclassified. Treat every count in this bucket as a statement about <em>cataloguing effort</em>, not about a tradition.</p><p>Two things make it more than dead weight, though.</p><p>First, it is a <strong>reclamation frontier</strong>. The handful of witnesses here that <em>do</em> carry a title leak their real identity through the same markers used elsewhere in this archive: <em>Tholanisan</em> and <em>Song maha sangket luang, maha ubat</em> — <em>sangket</em> and <em>ubat</em> being omens and portents — are <a href=\"/a?s=genre:astrology\">astrology</a> and divination material sitting in the wrong bucket; <em>Ekasīti dutiyavaṇṇanā</em> is a Pali <em>vaṇṇanā</em> (commentary) that belongs with the canon. The priority genres were partly <em>built</em> by fishing rows like these out of &quot;Undetermined.&quot; This bucket is the richest remaining pond for that work — and, because this archive prioritizes the esoteric, the <a href=\"/a?s=genre:magic_ritual\">Magic &amp; Ritual</a> and horā markers hidden here are the first thing a reading pass should look for.</p><p>Second, its physical profile is a genuine finding, not an accident.</p><h2>The shape of the collection</h2><p>This is the <strong>only genre where paper rivals palm-leaf</strong>: 53% palm-leaf against <strong>41% mulberry paper</strong>, where every settled genre runs 88–97% leaf. That is not noise. The <em>phap sa</em> folding-book is the support of working documents — almanacs, notes, loose miscellany — and working documents are exactly what resists tidy classification. The paper here is a fingerprint of the same &quot;used, not archived&quot; material that makes the astrology corpus lean to paper too.</p><p>It is also the <strong>most diverse</strong> slice of the collection on every axis that isn&#x27;t Tham Lanna: the widest spread of scripts (Tham Lao, Shan, <strong>Tham Lue</strong>, Thai all appear), the widest spread of languages (including Pali-and-Tai-Lue), and the flattest geography — Phayao and Nan lead here, not Phrae. The odd scripts and the border traditions pool in &quot;Undetermined&quot; precisely because they are harder for a Tham-Lanna-centric catalogue to read.</p><h2>Notes</h2><ul><li><strong>Read it as a work queue, ordered by the project&#x27;s priorities.</strong> The first pass should hunt the divination, horā and <em>saiyasat</em> markers (<em>tholanisan</em>, <em>sangket</em>, <em>ubat</em>, <em>katha</em>, <em>phrommachat</em>) and reclaim those rows into the research-priority genres, as was already done for the astrology corpus. Everything else can wait.</li><li><strong>The metadata is the thinnest in the collection.</strong> Only 23% of these witnesses carry a date (the lowest of any genre), 48 have no recorded temple and 48 no province. Do not cite provenance or date statistics <em>from this bucket</em> as if they were reliable — they are a measure of what has not yet been examined.</li><li><strong>The paper share is the one solid signal.</strong> If a prioritization pass wants a cheap heuristic for &quot;working document worth reading first,&quot; the mulberry-paper witnesses in this bucket are it.</li><li><strong>It should shrink.</strong> A healthy archive sees this genre <em>lose</em> rows over time as titles are read and material is reclaimed. Its size is a to-do list, and the goal is to empty it.</li></ul>"}, "dbPresent": true, "connections": [{"rel": "related to", "key": "genre:astrology", "label": "Astrology · โหราศาสตร์", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "out"}, {"rel": "related to", "key": "genre:magic_ritual", "label": "Magic & Ritual · ไสยศาสตร์", "authored": true, "weight": null, "dir": "out"}], "image": {"src": "/pimg/6975/9.png", "kind": "page", "mid": 6975, "page": 9, "starred": false, "caption": "Diagram — A single large brushed Chinese character 美 (měi, \"beauty\") in bold semi-cursive calligraphy, filling the leaf, captioned in Thai รูป ๑ ความงาม (\"figur"}}