Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2609
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1311

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1r-40v (incomplete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṅa
Part:skandha 7
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīmate rāmānujāya namaḥ rājovāca samaḥ priyaḥ śuhṛdbrahman ...
(BhP. 7.1.1)
Explicit: f. 40r:
iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṃ te ...
... lokā yatra carācarā 81
(BhP. 7.15.80 difference of numbers starts at stanza 53, which has 6 pAdas. This mss repeats the last two pAdas of the previous stanza followed by the first two pAdas of stanza 53, numbered as 53. The last four pAdas of 53 are then numbered 54.)
Final rubric: f. 40r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṃdhe sadācāranirṇayo nāma paṃcadaśodhyāyaḥ 15
Colophon: f. 40r:
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṃvata 1899 kā liṣitaṃ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṃ śrīrāmarāmarāmarāma śubhama[stu]stu kalyāṇarastu śrīrāma śrīrāma f. 40v:
tisvarociṣā 27 ātmanā trivṛtā cedaṃ
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:Country paper
Extent:39
Dimension:14.6-14cm x 30-31.6 cm
Foliation:Last folio marked as 40 on recto, 41 on verso
formula: 1-10, 12-41
Collation:F. 26 is two pieces of paper pasted together
Condition:Good, minor worm holes, left side damaged on ff4, text intact, damage on bottom of recto, top of verso repaired with pasted paper, esp. from ff 27.
Binding: No binding
Layout: F. 36v has only 5 lines; ink bleeds through.

Hands

Additions:

Marginal corrections and lengthy additions.

Decoration

Color:“Folio 3 recto, bottom to 5 verso, middle, in brown ink. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Either orange or brown powder is rubbed in over most colophons and most introductions of speakers." Inquits and chapter colophons highlighted with reddish brown.

History

Origin:For the recitation of bhagavaddAsa 1842 [= 1899]
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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.

Facsimile

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Transcription

f. 1r:
pustka bhāgavatasaptamaskaṃdhaḥ patrā 41
f. 1v:
śrīmate rāmānujāya namaḥ rājovāca samaḥ priyaḥ śuhṛdbrahman ...
(BhP. 7.1.1)
f. 10v:
āsī {ṇaḥ paryaṭannaśnan ...}
(BhP. 7.4.38) [missing 1 leaf, ṣtrangely, less than 3|5 stanśas are missing, while the folia average about 15 stanśas|] f. 11r:
{kvacidutpalakastūṣṇīm ...} aspaṃdapraṇayānaṃda ...
(BhP. 7.4.41)
f. 40r:
iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṃ te ...
... lokā yatra carācarā 81
(BhP. 7.15.80 difference of numbers starts at stanza 53, which has 6 pAdas. This mss repeats the last two pAdas of the previous stanza followed by the first two pAdas of stanza 53, numbered as 53. The last four pAdas of 53 are then numbered 54.) iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṃdhe sadācāranirṇayo nāma paṃcadaśodhyāyaḥ 15 miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṃvata 1899 kā liṣitaṃ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṃ śrīrāmarāmarāmarāma śubhama[stu]stu kalyāṇarastu śrīrāma śrīrāma
f. 40v:
tisvarociṣā 27 ātmanā trivṛtā cedaṃ
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010