Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2222 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 891 |
Work 1 (incomplete)
Locus: | 1v |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | zAntiparvan viSNusahasranAmastotra |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | |
Explicit: | f.<36v> |
Final rubric: | f.<36v> iti zrImanmahAbhArate zatasahasrasaMhitAyAM vayyAzakyAM zAMtiparvaNi |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | White European paper. Chain lines. |
Watermark: | Watermark on f. 36: Lady Brittania on a throne with shield. Ditto for f. 34. Ditto for f. 26. Ditto for f. 21. Ditto for f. 20. Ditto for f. 13. F. 31: watermark with text. F. 29: watermark with text. F. 24: watermark with text. F. 23: watermark with text. F. 16: watermark with text. F. 15: watermark with text. F. 8: watermark with text. The text reads: W&JHarri[s?] TurkeyMil[l?] 1839 |
Extent: | 36 |
Foliation: | 36 leaves, foliated 1-36. 1-36 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Lacks last folio, folio 37. Folio 1 has been damaged and repaired. Folios 29 and 30 have small holes burnt in them and folio 29 has black smudged near the burnt hole on its verso side. |
Accompanying matter: |
Decoration
Color: | Double daṇḍas in red. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers. | |
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 -- Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra. |
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 . |