Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:555
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:961

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:2r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<2r>
Explicit:f.<92r>
Final rubric:f.<92r> iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu0 mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAmASTAdazo dhyAyaH
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:2r
Author:SrIDarasvAmin
Title:
Part:
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<2r> tatra tAvad dharmakSetre ityAdinA viSIdan idam abravId ity aMtena
Explicit:f.<92r> satkarNadhAraM vinA 3
Final rubric:f.<92r> iti zrIzrIdharasvAmiviracitAyAM bhagavadgItAsubodinyAM mokSasaMnyAsayogonAmASTAdazo dhyAyah ||
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country-made paper.
Watermark:
Extent:91
Foliation:91 leaves, foliated 2-92.
2-91
Collation:
Condition:TK: Manuscript worn, but most of the text legible, especially 90-92 worn. F. 2 also quite worn. DN: Folios 2 recto and verso and 3 recto are in very poor shape and the lettering can hardly be read. Folio 92 is also in poor shape, but most of the writing is legible.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Yellow pigment used to erase text.

Decoration

History

Color:Yellow pigment used to erase text.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 17--
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 -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription parvan 6:
aDyAya 23:


f. 2r:
mū:
dhRtarASTra uvAca
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001) Commentary:

tatra tAvad dharmakSetre ityAdinA viSIdan idam abravId ity aMtena chapter 40:


f. 92r:
mū:

[...] nItir matir mama 78 (Mbh. 06.040.78)
iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu0 mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAmASTAdazo dhyAyaH Commentary:

satkarNadhAraM vinA 3
iti zrIzrIdharasvAmiviracitAyAM bhagavadgItAsubodinyAM mokSasaMnyAsayogonAmASTAdazo dhyAyah ||

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Toke Knudsen's OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .