Collection: | UPenn Ms. Coll. 390 |
Item: | 2173 |
Repository: | Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 1305 |
Locus: | ff. 1r–59v |
Author: | Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa |
Title: | Bhāgavatapurāṇa |
Part: | Skandha 11 |
Cover rubric: |
f. 1r
ekādaśabhāgavataprāraṁbhaḥ |
Incipit: |
f. 1v
śrībādarāyaṇir uvāca .. kṛtvā daityavadhaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ sarāmo yadubhir vṛtaḥ .. bhuvo <'>vatārayad bhāraṁ javiṣṭhaṁ janayan kaliṁ ..1.. (Anuṣṭubh) ( BhP. 11.1.1 ) |
Explicit: |
f. 59r
itthaṁ harer bhagavato rucirāvatāra vīryāṇi bālacaritāni ca śaṁtamāni .. anyatra ceha ceha (ca śru)tāni gṛṇan manuṣyo bhaktiṁ parāṁ paramahaṁsagatau labheta ..29.. ( BhP. 11.31.28 ) (Vasantatilakā) |
Final rubric: |
f. 59r
iti śrīmadbhāgavate 11 skaṁdhe (eka)triṁśo <'>dhyāyaḥ 31 |
Colophon: |
f. 59r
śake 1753 ravaranāmasaṁvatsare caitramāse kṛṣṇapakṣe daśamyā gurau śrīmatbhagavataekādaśaskaṁdhaṁ samāptim agamat |
Language: | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script |
Form: | Folia |
Material: | Country-made paper |
Extent: | 59 folia |
Dimension: | 9.8 x 20.1 cm (h x w) |
Foliation: | Foliated in the upper left and lower right margins on the verso of each folio, except the last folio which is unnumbered. While the text is continuous, the number 15 is skipped and two folia are numbered 22. In the upper left margin on f. 58v is erroneously written foreign 59 though the lower right is numbered correctly. The number is missing in the upper left margin on f. 19v. |
Formula: | 1–14, 16–22[a], 22[b]–58, [59] |
Signatures: | bhā0 e0 appears above the folio number in the upper left margin on the verso each page, and rāma0 above the folio number in the lower right margin. |
Collation: | Single folia |
Condition: | Very good with a few browned, bent or frayed edges. |
Binding: | Unbound |
Seal: | A circular stamp on the right of f. 1r and f. [59]v reads Library University Pennsylvania. |
Layout: | Written in 10–13 lines per page. |
Hand 1: | Written in clear, bold, regular characters, some tilted forward, some backward, in slightly wavy lines. |
Additions: |
There are marginal corrections and additions, lengthy ones on f. 13v, f. 20v, f. 29v, f. 47r, f. 55r, and f. 57v. |
Color: | Double daṇḍas are written in pink or red. Orange powder is rubbed over invocations, introductions of speakers, final rubrics, and numbers. Mistakes are covered over with yellow. |
Border: | Two sets of vertical double red lines rule the left and right margins of the text on each page. |
Origin: | The colophon on f. 59r states that the manuscript was completed on Thursday, the 10th tithi in the dark fortnight in the month of chaitra in the year 1753, called ravara, of the śaka era, which corresponds with 7 May 1831 AD. |
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: | Puranas – Bhāgavatapurāṇa – 11. skandha. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Sanskrit – 19th century. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts – India – 19th century. |
SubjectSL: | Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative |