Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2340 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 957 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | 1v |
Author: | |
Title: | |
Part: | |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1v> asya zrIbhagavadgItA mAlAmaMtrasya || zrIbhagavAnvedavyAsa RSiH || [...] |
Explicit: | f.<5r> |
Final rubric: | |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Work 2 (complete)
Locus: | 5r |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | bhagavadgItA |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<5r> |
Explicit: | f.<101> [...] |
Final rubric: | f.<101> iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogonAmASTAdazodhyAyaH || 18 || |
Colophon: | f.<102> zake 1765 zobhakRn nAmasaMvatsare zrAvaNazuklapUrNimAyAM tithau guruvAsare idaM pustakaM samAptim agamat || |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | european paper with water marks |
Watermark: | watermarks, hard to see, a kind of crest with an animal inside. paper is thick. date of 1829 can be read on fol. 72 and 73, 80. The water marked crest appears to leave an indent and can be seen without the help of the light panel; though faint. |
Extent: | 102 |
Foliation: | 1-102 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | excellent; some folios brittle |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: | Mistakes covered over with yellow. |
Decoration
Color: | double daNDas in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. | |
Border: | ||
Illustration: |
Origin: | "not given" zaka 1765 [=1843] |
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: | Mahābhārata. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | ../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata () |
Facsimile
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Person | Date | Change |
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Matthias Ahlborn | September 2010 | In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Benjamin Flemings OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson. |