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

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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]
Collation:
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;
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Wooden covers with tying cord

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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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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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Matthias AhlbornSusan J. MooreSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in 's BrMs*.txt file.
Peter M. Scharf25 December 2009edited the original encoding .