Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2396 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1312 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–4v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Adhyāya 1 |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
rājovāca .. kathito vaṁśavistāro bhavatā somasūryayoḥ .. rājñāṁ cobhayavaṁśyānāṁ caritaṁ !ma!<pa>ramādbhutaṁ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 10.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 4v
ugrasenaṁ ca pitaraṁ yadubhojāṁdhakādhipam . svayaṁ nigṛhya bubhuje śūrasenān mahābalaḥ ..70.. ( BhP. 10.1.69 ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 4v
iti śrībhā[va]gavate mahāpurāṇe daśama!sva!<skaṁ>dhe kṛṣṇāvatāro nāmaprathamo dhyāyaḥ ..1.. |
Colophon: | none |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country paper |
Extent: | 4 folia |
Dimension: | 10.7 x 24.2 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–4 |
Signatures: | bhā0 da0 pū0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on f. 1v–f. 2v; bhāgavata0 da0 pū0 on f. 3v. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Layout: | Nine to ten lines per page. Folio 1 contains ten lines per page. Folios 2–4 contain nine lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, somewhat sloppy regular characters, most of which are tilted slightly forward though a few are tilted leftward, in straight lines. |
Additions: |
Mistakes are scribbled over. Deletions are indicated by short vertical strokes through the headbar. There are a few marginal corrections. |
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: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |
Whole image | Individual pages | |
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f. 1r | f. 1r | |
f. 1v, f. 2r | f. 1v f. 2r | |
f. 2v, f. 3r | f. 2v f. 3r | |
f. 3v, f. 4r | f. 3v f. 4r | |
f. 4v | f. 4v |