Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 38 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 808 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | [I]41 |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | parvan 1, 2 |
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Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
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Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
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Extent: | 237 |
Foliation: | I: [i-ii], 41-85; II: 1-187, [iii-v] |
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Condition: | Very 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; a spot of white paste appears in some margins on the recto of each folio, often covering the number; First two folios with text are broken vertically in the middle and sewn together with white string; Some loss of character legibility where sewn; One inch on left side of folio 214 of second numbering set is broken off; Some loss of text. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
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On all folios with text, written in far left margin above the number: “ SrIrAma” On middle left of folio: “ saBA parvaM” “ araRya parvaM” In Telugu numerals: 217 In center of folio written upside down and crossed out: “ araRya parvaM” In far left margin: “ saBA parvaM” folio [i]r First numbering set 41-85: note in left margin “ SrIgaRADi” “ SrIrAmacaM” “ drAya namaH .” “ saBA parvaM” In blank ink, unetched: one line of illegible writing “ A”85 folio [I]1r Second numbering set 1-187:In far left margin, in black ink, unetched, in Telugu numerals: 1000 folio [II]20r 2000 folio [II]38v 3000 folio [II]57v 4000 folio [II]77v 5000 folio [II]92v 6000 folio [II]107v 7000 [II]119v 8000 [II]134v 9000 [II]147v Note [II]41r In black ink, unetched, written vertically on left margin: Telugu numerals: 800 / Telugu numeral: 13000 “ tIro”. 234v Center top “ narAyaRanInAmabipamasaMnnatali[?]” folio [v]r Center top, written upside down: “ anuSAsanikam” Written in right corner, upside down, crossed out: “ anuSAsanikam” folio [v]v |
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Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
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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: | Mahābhārata |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century |
SubjectSL: | ../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata () |
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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 . |