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Singhalese Manuscripts. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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End board of a Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscripts transcribed in 1874. This example is of a lac-worked Kandyan book cover comprising the traditional motifs of a string knot (lanu gate) at either end with a single vine scroll (liya-vala) between the punched holes and a flower round each hole with a diamond chip motif (Kundirakkam) border on bevelled edges.

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