Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 35 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 830 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | 1 |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | BIzmaparvan |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1r> |
Explicit: | f.<103r.l1> |
Final rubric: | f.<103r.l2> iti SrIBIzmaparvaRi SrImahABArate SatasahasrikAyAMsaM hitAyAM vEyAsikyAM SrIBIzmaparvaRi BIzmakarRasaMvAdA nAma zoqaSottaraSatatamo DyAyaH . |
Colophon: | f.<103r.l3> |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 110 |
Foliation: | Text for one folio is written on 2 palm leaves; 1st palm leaf is blank on the verso side with text on the recto side; the 2nd palm leaf is blank on the recto side with text on the verso side.
blank folio
folio 90(a)v
blank folio
folio 90(b)r 1-90[a], 90[b], 91-109 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; minimal worm holes; some loss of text due to water damage and mold. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Hand 1: | |
Additions: |
Numerous notes in margins. f. 41v
Note in left margin:
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f. 47v
Note in left margin:
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f. 52v
Note in left margin:
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f. 64r
Note in left margin:
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Decoration
Color: | ||
Border: | ||
Illustration: | Flowers in some left margins. |
Origin: |
suvarnnaMveMkkawAcalayya
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f. 103r, lines 3-4
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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 . |