Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 36 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 811 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | parvan 13-18 |
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Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 259 |
Foliation: | Two sets of numbering; The 2nd numbering immediately follows where the first set ends; 2nd numbering missing folio 85; Appears that the text is all there but the scribe misnumbered the folios leaving out 85. [i-ii], I: 1-145; II: 1-84, 86-113 |
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; a spot of white paste appears in some margins on the recto of each folio, often covering the number; A small upper right corner fragment is included with the manuscript, however there were no folios missing a section that would match up with this fragment. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes. |
Condition | good |
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Hands
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Additions: |
Uninked, etched note mid center of folio “anuSAsanIkaparvaM” 147 Illegible writing followed by number 56 Illegible writing followed by number 11 folio [i]r Note in center of folio in black ink, unetched: “anuSAsanIkaM” Note in center in black ink written over some text crossed out: “aSvameta” Note in center uninked, etched: “ASramavAsaM” 45 “mavusalaparvaM” 6 “mahAprastanikaM” 3 “svargArohARaM” 5 folio [ii]r Note in left margin: Etched and inked: “SuBamastu” “anuSAsanIkaM” “SrIrAmA” In black ink, unetched: “pat.trik.A i” “A” 145 folio [I]1r Note in left margin: “SrIgaRADi” “pataye namaH” “vizRusaha” “sranAmAlu” “SrIrAmA” folio [I]130r Note in left margin: Appears to be from the anuSAsanaparvan 13.135.26a-28b: “rudrobahu” ?“rAbaBRrvi” “SvayoniSSuci” “SravAH . amftaH” “SSASvatasDARu” “rvarAroho” “mahAtapAH .” “sarvagassarvavi” “dBAnurvihvakse” “nojanArdanaH” “vedovedavidavyaM” “govedAMgove” “davitkaviH . lokA” “dyakzaHsurADyakzo” “DarmADyakzaHkftA” “kftaH” folio [I]130v Note in left margin: “SrIgaRADipata” “yenamaH .. SrI” “SivasahasranA” “mAlU ..” 139 (page numbering) “SrIrAmA” folio [I]139r Note in left margin: Inked and etched: “SrImahAgaRADi” “patayenamaH” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAmajayaM” “aSvameDapa” “rvaRi SrI SrI SrI” In upper left corner of margin in black ink, unetched: “patri”? In mid left margin in black ink, unetched: “A” 84 folio [II]1r Note in left margin in black ink, unetched: 84 folio [II]84r Note in left margin: Inked and etched: “SuBamastu” “ASramavA” “saparva” “SrIrAmA” In black ink, unetched: “patri”? “A” 17 folio [II]86r Note in margin in black ink: 17 folio [II]102r Note in left margin: Etched and inked: “mOsala” “parvaM” “SrIrAmA” In black ink, unetched: 103 “patri”? “A” 51 folio [II]103r Note in left margin: Etched and inked: “SuBamastu” “mahAprasDA” “nikaparvaM ..” “SrIrAmA” In black ink, unetched: “patri”? “A” 2 folio [II]108r Note in left margin in black ink, unetched: 2 folio [II]109r Note in left margin: Etched and inked “SuBamastu” “svargAro” “haRaparva ..” “SrIrAmA” In black ink, unetched: “patri”? “A” 4 folio [II]110r Note in left margin in black ink, unetched: 4 folio [II]113r |
Decoration
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Illustration: | flowers in some left margins |
Origin: |
cuMqqiSItArAmaya
Finished writing the aSvameDaparvan on Wednesday the 10th, in the year Vikrama.
[II]84r, line 8 “ yAdfSaM pustukaM dfzwvA tAdfSaM liKitaM mayA . SrI.baD.v.aMvAsubad.z.aMvA mama dozena vidyate .. vikrama nAma saMvatsaranijajes 10 buDavAraMvarkuy iMkkolliSaMkkarayya gAriki cuMqqiSItA” |
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 () |
Facsimile
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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 . |