Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 34 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 836 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | 1 |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | droRaparvan |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1r.l1> |
Explicit: | f.<155v.l8> |
Final rubric: | f.<155v.l8-9> iti SrImahABArate SatasahasrikAyAM saMhitAyAM vEyyASikyAMA SrIdroRaparvaRi SatarudriyyaM nAmAzwanavatiSatamoDyAyaH |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Sanskrit in Telugu script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 160 |
Foliation: | [i-ii], [1], 2-155, [iii-v] |
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. Completely inked |
Binding: |
Wooden coversTying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: |
note: occassional“SrI”written in left margin note:“SrIgaRADipatayenamaH . SrIrAmaSuBamastu aviGnamastu .. droRa parvamU SrIrAmaSuBamastu” written in left margin f. 1r note in black ink, unetched: “†tri† A 155” written in left marginf. 1r note, seems to be a correction insertion:“[+]12 pati ..” written in left marginf. 49v note, seems to be a correction insertion: “9 vaMktilo[?]” written in left margin f. 61v note, seems to be a correction insertion: “[+] samezyAmiraRa rAjanbahuBi ryudDadurmadEH .”written in left marginf. 72v |
Decoration
Color: | ||
Border: | ||
Illustration: | flowers in some left margins |
Origin: |
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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, PÄlÄ« 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. ” |
Facsimile
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Person | Date | Change |
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Matthias Ahlborn | September 2010 | In , edited the original encoding. |
Peter M. Scharf | ???date mo.??? 2010 | edited the original encoding . |