Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:47
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1303

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:?
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:BAgavatapurANa
Part:skanDa 10
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r.l1> SrIhayagrIvAyanamaH .. SrIkaMWacApaKaMqqana . pAkAripramuKavinutaBaMqqanavilasa . tkAkusTavaMSSamaMqqana . rAkeMdduyaSoviSAlarAma nfpAlA ..
Explicit:f.<121v.l6> yiwlurukmiRIdevivihariMppumaMqqalopala viVarivalanavinikfzRuMqudevakIvasudevuluMdoq[?] unicanudeMccisarvajYaMqqayyununemiyuvivariMppakayUrakuMqqenaMttanAraduMqqucanudeMcciSaMbbaruMqqukumAruniggonipoyinadi
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Watermark:
Extent:170
Foliation:
[i-xiv], 1-22, [xv-xxiv], 23-31, [xxvi], 32-121, [xxvii-xxix]
Collation:
Condition:
Binding:

Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes

Conditiongood
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Hand 1:

Additions:

Occassional “SrI” in margin

Center note “SrIrAmulumAdEvamuSrIrAmulumAku” folio [xv]r

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “mu” “karayu” folio [xv]r

Note in left margin: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “daSamaskaMDaM” folio 1r

Note in left margin “SrIrAma” folio 86r

Decoration

History

Color:
Border:
Illustration:??flowers in some left margins??
Origin:

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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:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa ()

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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 .