Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2619
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1347

Contents

Work 1

Locus: (incomplete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 7
Incipit: f. 1v:
oṃ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya oṃ svabhaktapakṣapātena tadvipakṣavidāraṇa{ṃ} ||
nṛsiṃham adbhutaṃ vaṃde paramānaṃdavigrahaṃ
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 07.1.1.1-10 Sb07_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 67r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṃdhe prahlādānucarite yudhiṣṭiravāradasaṃvāde sadācāraḥ paṃcadaśodhyāyaḥ 15 śrītrikūṭāyai namaḥ rāmagatiṃ
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 07.15.80 Sb07_584.tif )
Filiation:Filiated with UP2626 and UP2628; and possible filiation with UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; as well as to: UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:skandha 7
Incipit: f. 1v:
rājovāca oṃ samaḥ priyaḥ suhṛd brahman bhūtānāṃ svayaṃ ...
(BhP. 07.01.1ab Sb07_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 67r:
samāptāyaṃ saptamaskaṃdhaḥ
Filiation:Filiated with UP2626 and UP2628; and possible filiation with UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627; as well as to: UP2617, UP2623, and UP2624.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:67
Dimension:18.4 x 32.2 cm
Foliation:folio 20 is missing; plus 1 blank folio for top of ms = 67ff
formula: [i],1-19,21-67
Collation:single folia
Condition:very good; very brown, fiberous paper
Layout:ten to eighteen lines.

Hands

Additions:

Marginal corrections. Very few daṇḍas or double daṇḍas are written.

Decoration

Color:Mistakes covered over with yellow or indicated by vertical strokes above the syllable in question. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophons and introductions of speakers.

History

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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
f. 1v:
oṃ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya oṃ svabhaktapakṣapātena tadvipakṣavidāraṇa{ṃ} ||
nṛsiṃham adbhutaṃ vaṃde paramānaṃdavigrahaṃ ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 07.1.1.1-10 Sb07_001.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
rājovāca oṃ samaḥ priyaḥ suhṛd brahman bhūtānāṃ svayaṃ ...
(BhP. 07.01.1ab Sb07_001.tif )
[missing 1 leaf, BhP|7|5|40d-7|5|54a]
Commentary:
f. 67r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṃdhe prahlādānucarite yudhiṣṭiravāradasaṃvāde sadācāraḥ paṃcadaśodhyāyaḥ 15 śrītrikūṭāyai namaḥ rāmagatiṃ
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 07.15.80 Sb07_584.tif ) mū:
f. 67r:
... samāptāyaṃ saptamaskaṃdhaḥ subham astu
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010