Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2174
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:1306

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:1r
Author:kfzRa dvEpAyana vyAsa
Title:bhAgavatapurANa
Part:skandha 10, adhyAya 29-33
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1v>
Explicit:f.<27v>
Final rubric:f.<27v27v>
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:British Paper, chain lines & watermark
Watermark:ff1, 2, 13, 21: Crest with water at bottom, shield w/ cross on right, Lady Britania on left, crown w/ cross on top. ff23: GWA? 1810/1840? ff25: J&J T… TURKEY MILL 1810/1840?
Extent:23
Foliation:numbered on both r & v
1-14, 19-27; 27
Collation:
Condition:Excellent
Binding:

No binding

Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

bhA./bhA. d./bhA. d. pU. in top left corner adhyAya # in top right corner, except 1v: rAma. & 2v: rAma ha.

Decoration

History

Color:“Either space between double daNDas or double daNDas in red. Last invocation in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections, some in red.” Red side borders. It appears that scribe switched to double daNDas in red on 2v, then added red between double daNDas earlier and added double daNDas in red where missing.
Border:
Illustration:
Origin:
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:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#purARa ()

Facsimile

page1.png
page2.png
Transcription

f. 1r:

.zrIgaNezAya namaH.. rAmasamartha....
athI zrIbhAgavatadazamaskaMdAMtargata adhyAyaprAraMbhaH

f. 1v:

zrIgaNezAya namaH..
bhagavAn api tA rAtriH [...]
Note: Inquit “zrIbAdarAyaNiruvAca” absent.
(BhP. 10.29.1)
14v samavetA jaguH kRSNaM ta (BhP. 10.30.44) 14v kAcinnetraraMdhreNa (BhP. 10.32.8)

f. 27r:

vikrIDitaM [...]
hRdrogam Azv apahinoty acireNa dhIraH..40.. (10.33.39 numbered as 40 as 10.33.3 is split into two)
iti zrIbhAgavate mahApuraNe dazamaskandhe trayastriMzo ‘dhyAyaH......33..
kAzivizvezvarArpaNam astu....zrIrAmasamartha

f. 27v:

zrI. za iti bhAgavatadazamaskaMdhaM trayastriMzodhyAyaH samAptaH

Changes

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