Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2609
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1311

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:bhAgavatapurANa
Part:skandha 7
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> zrImate rAmAnujAya namaH
Explicit:f.<40r>
Final rubric:f.<40r> iti zrIbhAgavate mahApurANe saptamaskaMdhe sadAcAranirNayo nAma paMcadazodhyAyaH 15
Colophon:f.<40r40v> miti mAghasraH vadi 4 saMvata 1899 kA liSitaM bhagavaddAsapAThArthaM zrIrAmarAmarAmarAma zubhamastu kalyANarastu zrIrAma zrIrAma tisvarociSA 27 AtmanA trivRtA cedaM
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country paper
Watermark:
Extent:39
Foliation:Last folio marked as 40 on recto, 41 on verso
1-10, 12-41
Collation:F. 26 is two pieces of paper pasted together
Condition:Good, minor worm holes, left side damaged on ff4, text intact, damage on bottom of recto, top of verso repaired with pasted paper, esp. from ff 27.
Binding:

No binding

Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Marginal corrections and lengthy additions.

Decoration

History

Color:“Folio 3 recto, bottom to 5 verso, middle, in brown ink. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Either orange or brown powder is rubbed in over most colophons and most introductions of speakers." Inquits and chapter colophons highlighted with reddish brown.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: For the recitation of bhagavaddAsa 1842 [= 1899]
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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purANa ()

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:

pustka bhAgavatasaptamaskaMdhaH patrA 41

f. 1v:

zrImate rAmAnujAya namaH rAjovAca
samaH priyaH zuhRdbrahman [...] (BhP. 7.1.1)
f. 10v AsI <NaH paryaTannaznan [...]> (BhP. 7.4.38) (Strangely, less than 3.5 stanzas are missing, while the folia average about 15 stanzas.) f. 11r <kvacidutpalakastUSNIm [...]> aspaMdapraNayAnaMda [...] (BhP. 7.4.41)

f. 40r:

iti dAkSAyaNInAM te [...]
[...] lokA yatra carAcarA 81 (BhP. 7.15.80 difference of numbers starts at stanza 53, which has 6 pAdas. This mss repeats the last two pAdas of the previous stanza followed by the first two pAdas of stanza 53, numbered as 53. The last four pAdas of 53 are then numbered 54.)
iti zrIbhAgavate mahApurANe saptamaskaMdhe sadAcAranirNayo nAma paMcadazodhyAyaH 15
miti mAghasraH vadi 4 saMvata 1899 kA liSitaM bhagavaddAsapAThArthaM zrIrAmarAmarAmarAma zubhama[stu]stu kalyANarastu zrIrAma zrIrAma tisvarociSA 27 AtmanA trivRtA cedaM

Changes

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