Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2198 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 984 |
Locus: | ff. 1v–14v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Dakṣaprokta Śivasahasranāmastotra |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r: atha śivasahasranāmaprāraṁbhaḥ .. |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Paper. |
Extent: | 15 |
Dimension: | 10.5 x 15.4 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per page. |
Additions: |
Only one marginal correction is found on f. 12v. |
Color: | Red is used for daṇḍas, borders, the rubric on f. 1r, and the final rubric on f. 15v. A few minor mistakes are painted over in yellow on f. 4r, f. 5r, f. 10r, f. 10v, f. 11r, and f. 12v. |
Border: | Double vertical red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. Double red lines frame the rubric on f. 1r, and the final rubric on f. 15v, double horizontal red lines rule the top and bottom margins on f. 15v: and frame the page on f. 1r. |
Origin: | The second sentence of the colophon on f. 14v: identifies {J}anArdanakoRqadeva {G}Aqagila as the scribe and owner of the manuscript which was written, according to the first sentence of the colophon, Śaka 1743 [1821 c.e.] |
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. ” |
SubjectLC: | Mahābhārata – Śivasahasranāma. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 18th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 6 November 2011 |
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