Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:Indic Manuscripts
Item:50
Repository:John Hay Library
Institution:Brown University
Location:Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Catalog:
Item:815

Work 1 (incomplete)

Locus:?
Author:??
Title:??
Part:??
Cover rubric:
Incipit:f.<1r.l1> SrIvARigirijA . SrIrAyup.aDatopakzomuKAMgezu . yelokAnastot.am.a[??] ttivihitA . pUjitAvassurEBUyAsuHpuruzottamA[?]s MbbujaBavaSrIkaMDarASreyane ..va ..anisakalaBUvanarakzaRapraBUvulayenayAdyuvEna .
Explicit:f.<180r.l3> dAnidfpadarAjatnayayudapastiyasvayaMsvarotsavamunapuqumAqaganinavArudrizwigaviganapulamellaganinavAruparamakAtukamunA .. va ..
Final rubric:
Colophon:
Filiation:
Second folio:Don't understand
Signatures:Don't understand
Language:Telugu in Telugu script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:palm leaf
Watermark:
Extent:183
Foliation:
[i], 1-180, [ii-iii]
Collation:
Condition:Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; some major worm holes that create lacunae and compromise structural integrity of folio; Two inches on left side of folio 86 are broken; Two inches on right side of folio 1 and 174 are broken off; Some loss of text; Handwriting difficult to decipher.
Binding:

No bindings.

Conditiongood
Accompanying matter:

Hands

Summary:
Additions:

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “AdiparvaM” folio 1r

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 22r

Unidentifiable markings scattered around left margin. Only Telugu character ma is legible folio 26v

Note in left margin: “bayyenasmatulaM” folio 35v

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” “mUqra ASuna” “mu” folio 44r

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 73r

Notes in both left and right margin: left margin: 7 lines of illegible text right margin: 5 lines of illegible text folio 107v

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 108r

Note in left margin: “SrIrAma” “SuBamastu” “aviGnamastu” folio 164r

Decoration

History

Color:
Border:
Illustration:Flowers in left margin folio 133r
Origin:

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Provenance: “”
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:Manuscripts, Telugu
SubjectSL:../TEI_MS/IndicSubjectClassification.xml#mahABArata ()

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PersonDateChange
Matthias AhlbornSusan J. MooreSeptember 2010In , filled MsDescPennTemplate.xml with data in 's BrMs*.txt file.
Peter M. Scharf25 December 2009edited the original encoding .