Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2184
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1365

Contents

Work 1

Author:"unknoṭn"
Title:bhāgavataprathamaślokaṭīkā
Incipit:janmādy asyeti || paraṃ atiśayena satyaṃ sarvakāladeśavartinaṃ parameśvaraṃ dhīmahi dhyāyema | baruvacanena kāladeśaparaṃ parāsaṃprāptānsarvāne bajī vānsvātaraṃgī kṛtya svaśikṣayātān dhyānam upadiśan(n eva krīḍīkaroti | anenāthāto brahmajijñāsetsatisūtrārth
Explicit: ???:
iti śrīvirādaviduṣām iti vad iti sarvaṃ jasaṃ ||1||
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Watermark:Watermarks on folios 3-7; see especially the crown that extends across folios 5-7, mainly on 6; incidentally, these are also the folios (3-7) in which the ink bleeds through, so is obviously a different stock. There is also a watermark on folio 10, but is entirely different. Some kind of design with lettering - see photo.
Extent:12
Dimension:10.2 x 20.2 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-12
Condition:very good - brittle on some folios; the text shows through from one side of a folio to the other on folios 3-7.

Hands

Additions:

Mistakes written over. Marginal corrections.

History

Origin:"not giveen" "not given"
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. ”

Subject headings

SubjectLC:Bhāgavatapurāṇa
SubjectLC:Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- 18th century.
SubjectLC:Manuscripts -- India -- 18th century.
SubjectSL:Purāṇa. Ancient Cosmogony, Genealogy, Narrative

Facsimile

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Transcription

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrūgopālāya namaḥ || janmādy asyeti || paraṃ atiśayena satyaṃ sarvakāladeśavartinaṃ parameśvaraṃ dhīmahi dhyāyema | baruvacanena kāladeśaparaṃ parāsaṃprāptānsarvāne bajī vānsvātaraṃgī kṛtya svaśikṣayātān dhyānam upadiśan(n eva krīḍīkaroti | anenāthāto brahmajijñāsetsatisūtrārth ... ... iti śrīvirādaviduṣām iti vad iti sarvaṃ jasaṃ ||1||
Record revised:September 2010