Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 32 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 824 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | udyogaparvan |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | f.<1r.l1> |
Explicit: | f.<124v.l12> |
Final rubric: | f.<124v.l13> iti SrImahABArate SatasadAsrirOyAM saMhitAyAM vEyyASikyAmudyogaparvaRi ps vayudDasannAhodAmadvyattaraSatatamodvAyaH . |
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: | 125 |
Foliation: | There are two sets of numbering, one above the other, starting in the 2nd folio. Both numbering sets are in the left margin, having the same script but different pen. The numbering set in the upper corner of left margin is in a newer ink, and is unetched. The numbering set in the middle of the left margin is in the original hand, and is etched and inked. [i], 1-124[i], 221-344 |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Very good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; occassional worm holes that can create lacunae. Completely inked |
Binding: |
Wooden coversCord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Hand 1: | The scribe was a devotee of kfzRa and rAma as the closing salutation witnesses: “ |
Additions: |
note: “ note:“ “”f. 124r |
Decoration
Color: | ||
Border: | ||
Illustration: | flowers in some left margins |
Origin: |
“” |
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, Pālī 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: | Mahābhārata |
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 , edited the original encoding. |
Peter M. Scharf | 25 December 2009 | edited the original encoding . |