Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:515
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1376

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurARa
Part:rasapaJcAdhyAya [= skandha 10, adhyAya 29-33]
Cover rubric:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:25
Foliation:folios: 25ff; numbered to 24.
1-24, [25]
Collation:
Condition:good - very good
Accompanying matter:

Decoration

History

Color:Some of the colophons and speakers are written in red.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: "not given" "unknown"
Provenance:
Acquisition: (David Nelson (2000: 203)) describes the acquisition of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library as follows: “

The University of Pennsylvania Library possesses a collection of almost 3,300 Indic manuscripts, the largest such collection in the Western hemisphere. While the vast majority of these manuscripts are from India, there are also a number of manuscripts from Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892-1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to purchase Indic manuscripts. Shortly thereafter he obtained a donation from the late Mr. John Gribbel. Substantial contributions from Dr. Charles W. Burr, the Faculty Research Fund, and the Cotton Fund soon followed. The bulk of the manuscripts are the result of purchases made using these funds in India, between 1930 and 1935, under the direction of Professor W. Norman Brown.

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa ()

Facsimile

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Transcription || zrIzukauvAca ||
bhagavAn api tA rAtrIH zaradotphullamallikAH
vIkSya raMtuM manaz cakre pogamApAm upAzritaH 1 [...] (BhP. 10.29.1abcd)
zra iti zrI bhAgava[me]te mahApurANe dazamaskaMdhe rAsakrIdAyAM ekonatrizodhyayaH ||[39]<29>||
[...] anichaMtyo yayur gopyaH svagRhAn bhagavan prIyA 40
vikrI
Note: (Ahlborn) This is the beginning of the last verse of the rAsakrIDA.
(BhP. 10.33.38cd-39a)

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Benjamin Flemings OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .