Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2233
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:949

Work 1 (complete)

Locus:1v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA-nyAsa
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v> asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdAMsi zrIkRSNaH paramAtmA devatA azocyAnanvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASasa iti bIjaM
Explicit:f.<5r> hariH om
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2 (incomplete)

Locus:5v
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:mahABArata
Part:bhagavadgItA
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<5v>
Explicit:f.<119v> d
Final rubric:f.<119v> iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpa vidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaM paniSadarthapratipAdakamokSasaMnyAsayo mASTAdazo dhyAyaH
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Browned European paper, chain lines.
Watermark:watermark looks like Lady Britannia in a seal with her shield (f. 37, for example). Watermark on f. 22 and f. 104 reads: W & J HARRIS TURKEY MILL 1839 F. 34 and f. 35 and f. 36 and f. 39 and f. 42 and f. 51 and f. 55 and f. 60 and f. 63 and f. 65 and f. 75 and f. 80 and f. 81 and f. 95 and f. 96 has: J & J TOWN TURKEY MILL 1840 F. 58 has: W x SON F. 99 has a name difficult to read, maybe R x x x x AR
Extent:119
Foliation:119 leaves, foliated 1-119.
1-119
Collation:
Condition:F. 119 has a portion ripped off.
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Mistakes covered over with gray or yellow.

Decoration

History

Color:Mistakes covered over with gray or yellow. Orange powder rubbed in over invocations, introduction of speakers, and numbers. A few black blotches.
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 namaH zrIsaccidAnaMdAya paramAtmane sadgurave oM
asya zrIbhagavadgItAmAlAmaMtrasya bhagavAn vedavyAsa RSiH anuSTup chaMdAMsi zrIkRSNaH paramAtmA devatA azocyAnanvazocas tvaM prajJAvAdAMz ca bhASasa iti bIjaM [...]
mUkaM karoti vAcAlaM pa<M>guM [llaM](laM)ghayate girIn
yat kRpA tam ahaM vaMde paramAnaMdamAdhavam 9
hariH om mUka null:
dhRtarASTra uvAca
dharmakSetre [...] (MBh. 06.023.001, numbered 1)
[...] bhUtir dhruvA nIti
Note: rest of line destroyed, f. 119v picks up:
78
(hariH oM ntatsa)d (Mbh. 06.040.078)
(hariH oM ntatsa)d
iti zrImadbhagavadgItAsUpa
Note: [TK] 4 or so aks. missing
vidyAyAM yogazAstre zrIkRSNArjunasaM
Note: 4 or so aks. missing
paniSadarthapratipAdakamokSasaMnyAsayo
Note: 3 or so missing
mASTAdazo dhyAyaH

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 .