Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 50 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 815 |
Work 1 (incomplete)
Locus: | ? |
Author: | ?? |
Title: | ?? |
Part: | ?? |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1r.l1> SrIvARigirijA . SrIrAyup.aDatopakzomuKAMgezu . yelokAnastot.am.a[??] ttivihitA . pUjitAvassurEBUyAsuHpuruzottamA[?]s MbbujaBavaSrIkaMDarASreyane ..va ..anisakalaBUvanarakzaRapraBUvulayenayAdyuvEna . |
Explicit: | f.<180r.l3> dAnidfpadarAjatnayayudapastiyasvayaMsvarotsavamunapuqumAqaganinavArudrizwigaviganapulamellaganinavAruparamakAtukamunA .. va .. |
Final rubric: | |
Colophon: | |
Filiation: | |
Second folio: | Don't understand |
Signatures: | Don't understand |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Physical description
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Watermark: | |
Extent: | 183 |
Foliation: | [i], 1-180, [ii-iii] |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; some major worm holes that create lacunae and compromise structural integrity of folio; Two inches on left side of folio 86 are broken; Two inches on right side of folio 1 and 174 are broken off; Some loss of text; Handwriting difficult to decipher. |
Binding: |
No bindings. |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Additions: |
Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “AdiparvaM” folio 1r Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 22r Unidentifiable markings scattered around left margin. Only Telugu character ma is legible folio 26v Note in left margin: “bayyenasmatulaM” folio 35v Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “mUqra ASuna” “mu” folio 44r Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 73r Notes in both left and right margin: left margin: 7 lines of illegible text right margin: 5 lines of illegible text folio 107v Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 108r Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 164r |
Decoration
Color: | ||
Border: | ||
Illustration: | Flowers in left margin folio 133r |
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. ” |
Subject headings
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Telugu |
SubjectSL: | ../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata () |
Facsimile
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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 . |