Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2175 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1307 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–11v (complete) |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Pārijātakākhyāna |
Part: | adhyāya 59–60 |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | European paper, browned, chain lines. |
Watermark: | Watermark on f. 5, shield with cross on top (text obscures content of shield), visible on f. 11: Lady Britannia inside the shield. |
Extent: | 11 |
Dimension: | 10.4 x 19.8 cm |
Collation: | Single folios. |
Condition: | Good condition. |
Binding: | Unbound. |
Layout: | 9 lines per page, 7 lines on 10v. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular, erect characters in straight lines. Marathi l in final benediction on f. 10v. |
Additions: |
Rare marginal corrections, e.g. on f. 4v. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Color: | Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Border: | Vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: | 18– |
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: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 10. skandha – 59–60. adhyāya. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Record revised: | 12 April 2012 |
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