Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2629
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1357

Work 1 (complete)

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Colophon:
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Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
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Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:98
Foliation:
[i], 1-87[a], 87[b]-95, [ii]
Collation:
Condition:good to very good; the top of folios 45 to 94 is badly worm eaten, destroying much of the text on many of these folios, but the text has been repaired/restored on ff 45-94
Accompanying matter:

Hands

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Marginal corrections.

Decoration

History

Color:Invocation, Double daNDas, some colophons, every other syllable of some colophons, some introductions of speakers, and every other syllable of some introductions of speakers in red. The letters and double daNDas in red ink have not been written in on some folios.
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Origin: "not given" "not given"
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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#purANa ()

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Transcription Commentary:


f. 1v:

oM svasti zrIgaNezAyanamaH ||
oM athaikatriMzatAdhyAyair visargasturya Iryate ||
visargas tv IzvarAdhIvair brahmamanvAdibhiH kRtaH ||1||[...] mū:
zrImaitreya uvAca ||
oM
namos tu zatarUpAyAM tistaH kanyAz ca jajJire || [...] Commentary:


f. 95r:

i<ti> zrI<bhA>ga<va>te mahA<pu>rANe ca<tu>rtha<skaM>dhe vAdI kAyAMrAkatriMzodhyAyaH samApto yaM caturthaH
Note: (Fleming) F. 95r [...] has missing letters which were to be put in in red.
mū:


f. 95r:

iti <zrI>bhA<ga>va<te> ma<hA>pu<rA>Ne <ca>tu<rtha>skaM<dhe> pra<ce>ta <u>pA<khyA>naM <nA>mai<ka>triM<zo'>dhyAyaH zubhaM

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 .