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 |
Locus: | f. 1r–40v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 7 |
Rubric: |
f. 1r
pustu bhāgavatasaptamaskaṁdhaḥ patrā 41 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
rājovāca samaḥ priyaḥ śuhṛdbrahman bhūtānāṁ bhagavān svayaṁ indrasyārthe kathaṁ daityān avadhīd viṣamo yathā 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 7.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 40r
iti dākṣāyaṇīnāṁ te pṛthagvaṁśā prakīrtitāḥ devāsuramanuṣyādyā lokā yatra carācarā 81 ( BhP. 7.15.80 BhP. 7.15.53 has three lines in the digital edition while this manuscript repeats the last line of the 7.15.52 followed by the first line of verse 53 as verse 53 and numbers the last two lines 54. ) (Anuṣṭubh) |
Final rubric: |
f. 40r
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe saptamaskaṁdhe sadācāranirṇayo nāma paṁcadaśo dhyāyaḥ15 |
Colophon: |
f. 40r
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṁvata 1899 kā liṣitaṁ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṁ |
Colophon: |
f. 40v
miti māghasraḥ vadi 4 saṁvata 1899 kā liṣitaṁ bhagavaddāsapāṭhārthaṁ |
Note: | The manuscript contains the seventh skandha of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa but is missing folio 11 containing BhP. 7.4.38a–41b. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country paper |
Extent: | 39 folia |
Dimension: | 14.6–14cm x 30–31.6 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. The last folio is correctly numbered 40 on the recto , and erroneously 41 on the verso . |
Formula: | 1–10, 12–40 |
Collation: | Single folios. F. 26 consists of two pieces of paper pasted together back to back. |
Condition: | Good, minor worm holes. The left margin of f. 4 is damaged but the text is intact. The bottom of f. 5r, top of f. 5v is repaired with a pasted strip of paper. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r reads Library University Pennsylvania. A white label on which is hand-written ‘2609’ is pasted beside it. |
Layout: | Written in 10–12 lines per page. F. 36v has only 5 lines; ink from the recto bleeds through. |
Summary: | With the missing f. 11, where there is a gap, the paper changes from local to imported, the layout changes from 9 lines per page to 11 lines per page, and the hand changes to smaller neater writing. |
Hand 1: | The pen changes to a broader nib and the size of characters increases from f. 2r, line 7 – f. 2v. |
Additions: |
There are marginal corrections and lengthy additions. |
Color: | A few pages, f. 3r, line 9 – f. 5v, line 6, are written in brown ink. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. Either reddish brown powder is rubbed in over most final rubrics and introductions of speakers. |
Origin: | The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on the fourth tithi of the dark fortnight in the month of mārgaśīrṣa in the year 1899 of the saṁvat era, which corresponds with 21 December 1842 A.D. for the recitation of BagavaddAsa. |
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 |