Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2199
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:953

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> oM asyazrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdaH zrI kRSNaparamAtmA devatA | azocAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM || sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM vrajeti zaktiH ||
Explicit:f.<6r>
Final rubric:f.<6r> iti kavacaM samAptaM || zrIdavyA
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (complete)

Locus:6v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<6v> oM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya ||
Explicit:f.<103v>
Final rubric:f.<[104r]v> iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSayogo nAmASTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||
Colophon:f.<[104]r> sAdhAraNatsaMvatsare aSAzuddhatrodazI 13 maMdavAsare taddinedaM pukaMsta nArAyaNedaM pustaka || zrIlakSmInRsimahaH prItAM
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:European paper, browned, chain lines, watermark.
Watermark:Big shield with crown on top, but only top preserved. And bottom on some leaves.
Extent:104
Foliation:104 leaves, foliated 1-103, [104]
1-103, [104]
Collation:
Condition:Some of the lettering is a bit blotchy.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Some marginal additions in brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout.

Decoration

History

Color:From folios 17-102 colophons and some introductions of speakers are in brown and double daṇḍas are in brown or pink. Some marginal additions in brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow throughout. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers through folio 16, over final colophon, and over most of the introductions of speakers.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin: 17--
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 -- Bhagavadgītā.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABarata ()

Facsimile

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Transcription nyAsa null:

||
zrIgaNezAya namaH ||
oM asyazrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdaH zrI kRSNaparamAtmA devatA |
azocAn anvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASaseti vIjaM ||
sarvadharmAn parityajya mAm ekaM zaraNaM vrajeti zaktiH ||
[...]
kRSNAM kamalapatrAkhyaM puNyaH zravaNakIrtanAt ||
vAsudevaM jagadyoniM nomi
Note: [TK} should be: naumi
> nArAyaNo hariM ||10|| ||
cha ||
cha ||
cha ||
iti kavacaM samAptaM ||
zrIdavyA mū:

oM namo bhagavate vAsudevAya || dhRtarASTra uvAca ||
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
[...] nIti matir mama ||78|| (Mbh. 06.040.078)
>iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSayogo nAmASTAdazo dhyAyaH ||18||

sAdhAraNatsaMvatsare
Note: [TK} two aks. erased
aSAzuddhatrodazI 13 maMdavAsare taddinedaM pukaM
Note: with a '2' above it
sta
Note: with a '1' above it
nArAyaNedaM pustaka ||
zrIlakSmInRsimahaH prItAM

Changes

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