Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2199 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 953 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | 1v |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | bhagavadgItA nyAsa |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1v> oM asyazrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdaH zrI kRSNaparamAtmA devatA | azocAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM || sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM vrajeti zaktiH || |
Explicit: | f.<6r> |
Final rubric: | f.<6r> iti kavacaM samAptaM || zrIdavyA |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Work 2 (complete)
Locus: | 6v |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | bhagavadgItA |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<6v> oM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya || |
Explicit: | f.<103v> |
Final rubric: | f.<[104r]v> iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSayogo nAmASTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18|| |
Colophon: | f.<[104]r> sAdhAraNatsaMvatsare aSAzuddhatrodazI 13 maMdavAsare taddinedaM pukaMsta nArAyaNedaM pustaka || zrIlakSmInRsimahaH prItAM |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | European paper, browned, chain lines, watermark. |
Watermark: | Big shield with crown on top, but only top preserved. And bottom on some leaves. |
Extent: | 104 |
Foliation: | 104 leaves, foliated 1-103, [104] 1-103, [104] |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Some of the lettering is a bit blotchy. |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: | Some marginal additions in brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout. |
Decoration
Color: | From folios 17-102 colophons and some introductions of speakers are in brown and double daṇḍas are in brown or pink. Some marginal additions in brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers through folio 16, over final colophon, and over most of the introductions of speakers. | |
Border: | ||
Illustration: |
Origin: | 17-- |
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 -- Bhagavadgītā. |
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 Toke Knudsen's OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson. |
Peter M. Scharf | ???date mo.??? 2010 | edited the original encoding . |