Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2408 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 878 |
Locus: | ff. 1v-4r (complete) |
Author: | kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa |
Title: | mahābhārata |
Part: | śāntiparvan, mokṣadharma, adhyāya 338 = crit. ed. 325 |
Incipit: |
f. 1v: bhīṣma uvāca || prāpya śvetaṃ mahādvīpaṃ ... (MBh. 12.325.001ab) |
Explicit: |
f. 4r: ... brahmaṇyadeva 99 Note: 199 bhakto haṃ tvāṃ didṛkṣur ekāṃtadarśanāya namo namaḥ (Mbh. 12.325.169/171) |
Final rubric: |
f. 4r: iti śrīmahābhārate śāṃtiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi aṣṭatriṃśadadhikatriśatamodhyāyaḥ 338 |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanagari script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | White paper with chain lines, European. |
Watermark: | Watermark on ff. 3-4. Lady Britannia can be seen sitting on a throne with her shield (top cut off). Below this are the words, "British Make". |
Extent: | 4 |
Dimension: | 10.5 x 17 cm |
Foliation: | 4 leaves, foliated 1-4. F. 4 foliated on recto; F. 4v blank.
formula: 1-4 |
Collation: | Ff. 1-2 connected, and so are ff. 3-4.
formula: 1+2, 3+4 |
Layout: | Written in 9 lines per leaf. |
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: | Mahābhārata. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | ???date mo.??? 2010 |
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