Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:773
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:948

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:?
Author:
Title:
Part:bhAgavadgItA nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f. asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmantrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH . anuSTup chandaH . zrIkRSNaparamAtmA devatA . azocyAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASase iti bIjam . sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM brajeti zaktiH .. ahaM tvAM sarvapApebhyo mokSayiSyAmi mA zucaH iti kIlakam .. [...]
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (incomplete)

Locus:???
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhAgavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.
Explicit:f.<59v>
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:64
Foliation:foliated 1-59 with 5 blank folios interspersed throughout
Collation:Was bound as a book on left (short) side prior to writing of text.
Condition:good
Accompanying matter:

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History

Color:Colophons and introduction of speakers are either in gold lettering outlined by red, or in red. Double s are in red. The third and fourth sides of text are surrounded with ornamental devices in gold, purple, and red, and the lines alternate red, gold, black; gold red, black; and black red, gold; black, gold, red. The first and second sides have only three lines per side in red, gold, black and black, gold, and red respectively, and are surrounded by the same ornamental device which is here bordered in black, and surrounded by an ornamental device in tan, gold, and orange on a background of blue and gold with black, gold, and red lines bordering it. Orange powder is rubbed in over numbers through folio 10. Mistakes are covered over with yellow.
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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:Mahābhārata -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription nyAsa null:

oM namo bhagavate vAsdevAya
asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmantrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH . anuSTup chandaH . zrIkRSNaparamAtmA devatA . azocyAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASase iti bIjam . sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM brajeti zaktiH .. ahaM tvAM sarvapApebhyo mokSayiSyAmi mA zucaH iti kIlakam .. [...] mū:
dhRtarASTra uvAca .
dharmakSetre kurukSetre . samavetA yuyutsavaH [...]
sAdhibhUtAdhidaivaM mAM sAdhiyajGaM ca ye viduH ..
pra- (MBh. 06.029.030) (BhG. 7.30)

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 .