Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 491 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 888 |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | Ff. [0], 1-24 are on country-made paper. The remainder on European paper with chain lines. Same hand. F. 31 is on country-made paper. So also ff. 34-35. So also ff. 44-45. |
Watermark: | Watermark on ff. 27-28 (which are connected). It is part of a shield, inside is a bird (maybe an eagle). Ff. 29-30 has a watermark also: a seal with a band across it going downwards. Beneath is written "G M". Watermark also on ff. 36-37 and ff.: Bottom of a seal with the words Gior' Magnani |
Extent: | 48 |
Foliation: | 48 leaves, foliated [0], 1-47 [0], 1-47 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | The corners on the left side of the folio have been unevenly cut off. [TK: Correction to DN: not *cut off*, but rather *broken off*.] |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: | Mistakes covered over with yellow. |
Decoration
Color: | Part of invocation, colophons, and part of final colophon, introduction of speakers, and double daṇḍas written in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. | |
Border: | ||
Illustration: |
Origin: | rAja zrI ApAdikSita dAtye 1831-08-27 |
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 -- 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 19th 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 . |