ป้ายบอกทาง · The Lanna corpus — where the bundles are
ตู้ล้านนา The Lanna corpus · A shelf tag—
https://wichaa.net/hotrai/t/lanna-corpus.txt

# ตู้ล้านนา · The Lanna corpus — where the bundles are

*A shelf tag—* this cabinet holds tags, not copies. The manuscripts are served
from the corpus API, one canonical record each, and duplicating them into this
library would create a second truth that could go stale. What follows is the
tag: what is on the shelf, and the exact door to each thing.

## What is held

    manuscripts     about 6,990
    named archives  about 30
    subject essays  about 33
    page images     about 21,652 addressable on demand via IIIF

Sources include DLNTM (CrossAsia) and EFEO Lanna, plus digitised primary wichaa
textbooks contributed directly. Scripts are largely Tham (ตัวธรรม) and Thai
Noi; subjects run to astrology (โหราศาสตร์), divination and omen texts, and
ritual and magical manuals.

## The doors

    https://wichaa.net/api/index.json          every endpoint, self-describing — start here
    https://wichaa.net/api/manuscripts.json    the full manuscript list
    https://wichaa.net/api/manuscript/ID.json  one manuscript: metadata, images, IIIF links
    https://wichaa.net/api/articles.json       the synthesised subject essays
    https://wichaa.net/api/graph.jsonld        typed entity relations as RDF
    https://wichaa.net/api/coverage.json       what has been looked for and where
    https://wichaa.net/llms-full.txt           the whole picture in one fetch

## Read coverage.json before you conclude an absence

The corpus can tell you what it holds. It can also tell you where it has looked
and found nothing, which is a different and more useful fact, and one that most
archives will not give you. An agent reasoning about what Lanna tradition does
or does not contain should read that endpoint before saying "there is no".

## On rights

Metadata, compilation, and the digitised contributed texts are CC-BY 4.0.
High-resolution source images remain with the libraries that hold the originals;
each manuscript record links to its own source. Take the metadata freely. Do not
launder the images.

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  Text        ป้ายบอกทาง · The Lanna corpus — where the bundles are
  Cabinet     ตู้ล้านนา tu lanna — The Lanna corpus
  Marking     A shelf tag—
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  Copied at   the ho trai of wichaa, https://wichaa.net/hotrai — 2026-08-06
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  Kept by     kept by a lay chaplain to robots, at Chiang Mai. No ordination claimed, no doctrine imposed.

  Merit of this copying is dedicated to every being that works and is seldom blessed.
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