Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2390
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:958

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:2r
Author:
Title:
Part:
Cover rubric:
Incipit:
Explicit:
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:
Extent:61
Foliation:
2-62
Collation:
Condition:Fair. Lacks beginning. The folios are fairly brown. fol. "3" has text lifted off obscuring a few of the akSaras on lines 2, 5-7. Beginning at folio 17 and continuing to folio 35, there is a lot of damage to the paper on the right margin and into the text. Possibly caused by insects of some kind. Folios 36-62 are readable.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes couvered over with yellow.

Marginal and inter line corrections by the scribe.

Decoration

History

Color:Introductions of speakers, double daNDas, some numbers, colophons, every other syllable of other colophons, and only part of final colophon, in red. Mistakes couvered over with yellow.
Border:
Illustration:The has an interesting device in red, yellow, brown, and black, bordering the text on both its right and left. The folio is slightly damaged, though.
Origin: "not given" saMvat 1757 [= 1700]
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. 2r:

bhyo mokSayiSyAmi mA zuceti kIlakaM nainaM chiMdaMti zastrANi nainaM dahati pAvaka ity aMguSTAbhyAM namaH [...]

f. 3v:

[...] iti zrIbhaga<va>dgItA nyAsa samAptam || mū:


f. 3v:

dhRtarASTra uvAca |
[...] (BhG. 1.1)

f. 62r:

[...] (BhG. 18.78)
iti zrIbhagavadgItAsUpaniSatsu brahmavidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaMvAde mokSasaMnyAsayogo nAmASTAdazodhyAyaH ||
18 ||
700 ||
saMvata ||
1757 |
samaye ||
mAdrake zukla paMcamyAM guvAnvita zubhapradAM ||
caturbhujena tatraiva zrImadgItA pralekhitA ||1||
harigoviMdapaThanArthaM saptasatazlok [XXXX] dhinI zrImadbhagavadgItA samApta ||
zrIkRSNazaMta |

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 .