Manuscript Identifiers
Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 37 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | |
Item: | 807 |
Work 1 (complete)
Locus: | [I][1] |
Author: | kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa |
Title: | mahABArata |
Part: | parvan 11, 12 |
Cover rubric: | |
Incipit: | |
Explicit: | |
Final rubric: | |
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: | 265 |
Foliation: | I: [1], 2-14; II: [1], 2-248, [i-ii] |
Collation: | |
Condition: | Excellent condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; a few worm holes in the margins; a spot of white paste appears in each margin on the recto of each folio, often covering the number. Burn spots on 87r. |
Binding: |
Wooden covers with tying cord and a metal peg through lateral holes |
Condition | good |
Accompanying matter: |
Hands
Summary: | |
Hand 1: | |
Additions: |
Left margin in scribes hand: “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “SrIrAma jayaM” “SrIvaryaM” [I]1r In wide black ink lines in different hand: “pati” ?“M” “A14” [I]1r One line in medium width black line in Urdu script between the two last black marker lines: [I]1r In Telugu, uninked. ????“maya” “nucunu sAve1d.AninA” “yaviMpamu sa.M.nnutata” [II][ii]v |
Decoration
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Illustration: | flowers in most left margins |
Origin: |
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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 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 . |