Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 33 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 814 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | 1 |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | Adiparvan |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1r.l11r.l9> ugraSravAs sUti pOrARiko nEmiSAraNye SOnakasya kulapater dvAdaSavArzike satrapravatramane samA . |
Explicit: | f.<216v.l3-4> |
Final rubric: | f.<216v.l4-6> |
Colophon: | f.<216v.l7> SrISrISrISrISrIjeyunU .. Sunu . kftA nAma sa .. Adinela 20 tedi AdiparvaMvrA[?]s risamAptamukarakkatamadarADaM kzattam arhaMtti saMtaH .. |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 221 |
Foliation: | [i-iii], 1-216, [iv-v] |
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 that can create lacunae; Folio 79 is completely broken off three inches on left side but with complete text still available; Some loss of text due to water damage and mold. Completely inked |
Binding: |
Wooden coversTying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: |
note: “SrIgaRADipata yenamaH SuBam astu aviGnam astu SrIrAmajayaM AdiparvaM plava AvaRInela 10 tedi romarzaRa putraH ..” Illegible writing in black ink, unetched. Legible writing in black ink, unetched: “A 216” written in left marginf. 1r note:“nAparADi”written in right marginf. 12v note:“aciragataSreti”written in left marginf. 13v note:“yaDApava nnana [??] BomiyA mAsa .” written in left margin f. 14v note:“sannihi ttevasA”written in right marginf. 14v note: lacunae due to worm holes “[?]rIva SrIrAmo virUpA [?]ra”written in left marginf. 15r note:“1000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 21r note:“2000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 39r note:“3000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 58r note:“4000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 77r Left 3 inches of folio ripped off; folio fragment retained“”f. 79r note:“5000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 98v note:“6000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 119v note:“7000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 139v note:“8000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 159v note:“9000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 179v note:“10000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 200v note:“11000”written in left margin in black, unetched inkf. 216v note: text illegible“”f. 216v note: only 7 lines of text on folio“”f. 216v note: “gIqinamaSUyasiMDiMnamaH .. aAiIuUfFlulU”in top left margin, etched but not inkedf. [iv]r |
Decoration
Color: | ||
Border: | ||
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. ” |
Facsimile
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Person | Date | Change |
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Matthias Ahlborn | September 2010 | In , edited the original encoding. |
Peter M. Scharf | ???date mo.??? 2010 | edited the original encoding . |