Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 555 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 961 |
Locus: | ff. 2r-92r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | bhagavadgītā |
Incipit: |
f. 2r: dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharmakṣetre ... (MBh. 06.023.001) |
Explicit: |
f. 92r: ... nītir matir mama 78 (Mbh. 06.040.78) |
Final rubric: |
f. 92r: iti śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu0 mokṣasaṃnyāsayogo nāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Locus: | ff. 2r-92r (complete) |
Author: | śrīdharasvāmin fl. 1350-1450 |
Incipit: |
f. 2r: tatra tāvad dharmakṣetre ityādinā viṣīdan idam abravīd ity aṃtena |
Explicit: |
92r: satkarṇadhāraṃ vinā 3 |
Final rubric: |
92r: iti śrīśrīdharasvāmiviracitāyāṃ bhagavadgītāsubodinyāṃ mokṣasaṃnyāsayogonāmāṣṭādaśo dhyāyah || |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | Country-made paper. |
Extent: | 91 |
Dimension: | 12.7 x 30.4 cm |
Foliation: | 91 leaves, foliated 2-92.
formula: 2-91 |
Condition: | TK: Manuscript worn, but most of the text legible, especially 90-92 worn. F. 2 also quite worn. DN: Folios 2 recto and verso and 3 recto are in very poor shape and the lettering can hardly be read. Folio 92 is also in poor shape, but most of the writing is legible. |
Layout: |
11-14 lines {7 for f. 92v} Text sometimes continued into the margin. |
Color: | Yellow pigment used to erase text. |
Origin: | 17-- |
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 -- Bhagavadgītā. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century. |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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