Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2463 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 869 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–26v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhīṣmastavarāja |
Incipit: |
f. 1r
janamejaya uvāca śaratalpe śayānas tu bhāratānāṁ pitāmahaḥ katham utsṛṣṭavān dehaṁ kaṁ ca yogam adhārayat 1 (Anuṣṭubh) ( MBh. 12.47.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 26r–f. 26v
tato giraḥ puruṣavarastavānvitā dvijeritāḥpathi sumanāḥ sa suśruve kṛtāṁjaliṁ praṇatam athāparaṁ janaṁ sa keśihā muditamanābhyanandata 106 ( MBh. 12.47.72 ) (Rucirā) |
Final rubric: |
f. 26v
iti śrīmahābhārate śāṁtiparvaṇi rājadharmme stavarājaḥ 47 bhīṣmastavarāja(ḥ) saṁpūrṇa(ḥ) samāpta(ḥ) .. .. |
Colophon: | none |
Note: | See Ms. Coll.390, Item 490, Notefor a description of the Bhīṣmastavarāja. |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 26 folia |
Dimension: | 10.5 x 16.1 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio. |
Formula: | 1–26 |
Signatures: | bhī0 ṣma0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin, and rāma appears above the folio number in the lower right margin on the verso of each folio. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Excellent. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and on the lower right of f. 26v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 5 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Clear, bold, regular characters. |
Additions: |
Mistakes covered over in yellow. Marginal corrections in a hand other than scribe's on f. 7r, f. 20r, f. 24r. Additional minor in-line corrections. |
Color: | Folios 5, 6, 11, 20, 25, and 26 are dyed yellow. Mistakes are covered over in yellow. |
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 – Bhīṣmastavarāja. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |