Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2241
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:969

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:[0]v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:
Cover rubric:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:european paper w. watermarks; Last two folios, 80-81 are on country made paper; no watermarks, thinner stock.
Watermark:European paper with watermarks; e.g., JW HA . . . TMAN (fol. 5, etc.); some kind of crest with E and a C in different parts. See especially, folios 22-23: JWhatman (in small caps) - J.Whatman {see: http://www.baph.org.uk/imagepages/watermarks/whatman.html } - from "Turkey Mills" -- Date of "1808" - see ff. 34-35 (together as unit); also "1809" see 64-65 (as unit)
Extent:81
Foliation:
[0],1-81
Collation:
Condition:excellent
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers, being rubbed in over every other syllable in some cases.

Decoration

History

Color:Double daNDas and final colophon in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers, being rubbed in over every other syllable in some cases.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: "not given" zaka 1733 [=1811]
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.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription nyAsa null:


f. [0]v:

zrIgaNeZAya namaH ||
zrIgurubhyoM namaH ||
zrIrAmacaMdrAya namaH ||
oM asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya ||
zrIbhagavAn vedavyAsaRSiH ||
anuSTup chaMdaH ||
zrIkRSNa paramAtmA devatA ||
kvacitkAnIcinnAnAchaMdAMsi ||
azocyAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASasetibIjaM || [...] mū:


f. 78v:

[...] hariH oM tat sad
iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpanizatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAma aSTAdazodhyAyaH 18
zrIkRSNArpaNam astu ||
zrIsItArAmacaMdrArpaNam astu zrIgurUrAjacaraNArvidArpaNam astu ||
zrIrAma || AratI null:


f. 81:

zrI rAmacaMdra gItAsu gItAH karttavyAH kim anyaiH zAstrakoTibhiH yAH svayaM padmanAbhasya mukhapadmAdviniH sRtA ||1|| ||
zrIkRSNacaraNAraviMdArpaNam astu ||
ca ||
ca ||
zrI ||

Changes

PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in Benjamin Flemings OriginalData.txt file and data in mbh_bhp.xml collected by David Nelson.
Peter M. Scharf???date mo.??? 2010edited the original encoding .