Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2381
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1339

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-43r (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
dvitīy[a]{e} tu daśādhyāyaiḥ śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ |
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.1.0 Sb02_001.tif )
Colophon: f. 43r:
śubhaṃ | bhavatu || lekhakapācakābhyāṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu || kalyāṇam astu || śrīrastuḥ || || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhābhyāṃnamaḥ || | śrīkṛṣṇaprasādostu ||
Filiation:with UP2380, UP2382, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385 and likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-43r (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 2
Incipit: f. 1v:
śrīśuka uvāca || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṃ yataḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 01.1.1ab Sb02_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 43r:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe divtīyaskaṃdhe daśamodhyāyaḥ || || samāptoyaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ sambhāṣyaḥ ||
(cf. BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Filiation:with UP2380, UP2382, UP2383, UP2384, UP2385 and likely with UP2250, UP2251, UP2252, UP2253, UP2254.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper
Extent:43
Dimension:15.1 x 35.5 cm
Collation:single folia
Condition:excellent; the text at f. 14r:
is written upside down.
Layout:nine to fourteen lines per leaf.

Hands

Hand 1:Marginal and interlinear additions and lengthy corrections by different hands.

Decoration

Color:Some double daṇḍas in red. Some invocations and some double daNDas in purple. Some double daṇḍas, in orange. Orange powder rubbed in over numbers, some colophons, some invocations, and some introductions of speakers. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.

History

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. ”

Facsimile

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Transcription

Commentary:
f. 1v:
śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhāya namaḥ dvitīy[a]{e} tu daśādhyāyaiḥ śrībhāgavatamāditaḥ | ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 2.1.0 Sb02_001.tif ) mū:
f. 1v:
oṃ śrīvāsudevāya namaḥ || śrīśuka uvāca || varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto lokahitaṃ yataḥ ||...
(BhP. 01.1.1ab Sb02_001.tif )
Commentary:
f. 43r:
... śubhaṃ | bhavatu || lekhakapācakābhyāṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu || kalyāṇam astu || śrīrastuḥ || || śrīlakṣmīnṛsiṃhābhyāṃnamaḥ || | śrīkṛṣṇaprasādostu || mū:
f. 43r:
... iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe divtīyaskaṃdhe daśamodhyāyaḥ || || samāptoyaṃ dvitīyaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ sambhāṣyaḥ || śubhaṃ bhavatu ||
(BhP. 02.10.51 Sb02_507.tif )
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010