Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2639
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:988

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:???
Author:
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA (selected verses with commentary - zaivite praises)
Cover rubric:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:79
Foliation:in 7 sections, each numbered/foliated separately
I: [i-iii], 1-12, [13], [iv-v]; II: 1-11, [i-ii]; III: 1-3, [i-ii], 4, [iii-iv], 5, [v-vi], 6, [vii-viii], 7, [xix], 8, [x-xi], 9, [xii-xiii], 10, [xiv-xv], 11, [xvi-xvii], 12-14; IV: 1-5, [6]; V: 1-6; VI: 1-3; VII: 1-3
Collation:bound on left side as book
Condition:very good-excellent; front page is fragile
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

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Decoration

History

Color:Select akSaras and the opening of verses, speakers, and colophons, printed in red; double daNDas in red. Text is bordered in red rectangle throughout the ms. Outer edges of ms were rubbed with a red paint, which may be due to the red background paint used for the images.
Border:Text is bordered in red rectangle throughout the ms.
Illustration:Illuminated mss. with images of avataras of Vishnu throughout the text. Opening of text is illuminated background. There are 13 images in total (counting the cover image). Most are of Avataras of Vishnu though the cover image is of four-armed GaNeza and Ziva (with 3rd eye)
Origin: "not given" zaka 1733 [=1811]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

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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 .