Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 49 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 809 |
Work 1 (complete)
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Cover rubric: | The Great Baratam Fifth or ???a ??i? of the ?a?? of the Po???? ?ur??? |
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Final rubric: | f.<212r> idiSrImaduBayakoMmmanAmatyaputrabuDArADanavirAjitikkanasomayAjipraRItaMbbEnaSalyaparvaMbbunaMddusarvaMbbunudvitiyyASvAsamU .. SrImaMggaLmahASrISrIMjjeyunU .. SrIkfzRArpaRamastu .. |
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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: | 215 |
Foliation: | two folios numbered as 8 [i], 1-8a, 8b-212, [ii] |
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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 and loss of folio structural integrity; |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord |
Condition | good |
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Hands
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Note in left margin: “SrIrAmA” “SuBamastu” “karRnaparvaM” folio 1r Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “gaRapatissa” “hAyaM” folio 83r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmA” folio 123r Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmA” “reMqoASvA” “samu” folio 162r |
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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: | 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 . |