Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 44 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 1300 |
Work 1 (incomplete)
Locus: | |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | BAgavatapurANa |
Part: | skanDa 1-5 |
Cover rubric: | |
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Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 300 |
Foliation: | folio 13 missing from the first set of numbering; I: [i-ii], 1-12, 14-32; II: 1-34; III: [iii], 1-105; IV: 1-87; V: 1-37, [iv-vi] |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes; Some folios have considerable fading. Folio broken off 1 1/2 inches on right margin folio [IV]87r |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
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Additions: |
Occassional “SrI” written in left margin Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “prathamaskaMdDa” folio [I]1r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmAyanmaH” “dvitiyyaskaMDaM” folio [II]1r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmAyanmaH” “BagavataM” “tftiyyaskaMDaM” folio [III]1r Note in left margin: “daMqqakaM” folio [III]17r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmA” “BagavataM” “caturDa” “skaMDaM” folio [IV]1r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “BagavataM” “paMcamaskaMDaM” “priyapratuni” “sujYAka” folio [V]1r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “BagavataM” “paMcamaskaMDaM” “dvitIyADyA” “samu” folio [V]20r “DaMsIkAlayutaMvazakAkalyabdamitikathyate” “waWaqaQaRataTadaDa . 9” “yaralavaSazasa 70” “ka 100” “yarala 2000” In Telugu: “aMttu 3179 saMvvatsaramulamIdaSAlIvAhanaMpuwwaqaM” folio [V][vi]v |
Decoration
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Illustration: | ??flowers in some left margins?? |
Origin: |
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Provenance: | “” |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
“
Indic Manuscripts
A collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, PÄlÄ« grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in (A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938.) Register available. Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese. ” |
Subject headings
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Telugu |
SubjectSL: | ../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa () |
Facsimile
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Person | Date | Change |
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Matthias AhlbornSusan J. Moore | September 2010 | In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in 's BrMs*.txt file. |
Peter M. Scharf | 25 December 2009 | edited the original encoding . |