Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2241 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 969 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | [0]v |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | |
Explicit: | |
Final rubric: | |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | european paper w. watermarks; Last two folios, 80-81 are on country made paper; no watermarks, thinner stock. |
Watermark: | European paper with watermarks; e.g., JW HA . . . TMAN (fol. 5, etc.); some kind of crest with E and a C in different parts. See especially, folios 22-23: JWhatman (in small caps) - J.Whatman {see: http://www.baph.org.uk/imagepages/watermarks/whatman.html } - from "Turkey Mills" -- Date of "1808" - see ff. 34-35 (together as unit); also "1809" see 64-65 (as unit) |
Extent: | 81 |
Foliation: | [0],1-81 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | excellent |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: | Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers, being rubbed in over every other syllable in some cases. |
Decoration
Color: | Double daNDas and final colophon in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers, being rubbed in over every other syllable in some cases. | |
Border: | ||
Illustration: |
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 () |
Facsimile
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Person | Date | Change |
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Matthias Ahlborn | September 2010 | In , 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.??? 2010 | edited the original encoding . |