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:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
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

Conditiongood
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Hand 1:

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

History

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, Pālī 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 ()

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Matthias AhlbornSusan J. MooreSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in 's BrMs*.txt file.
Peter M. Scharf25 December 2009edited the original encoding .