Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:391
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1366

Contents

Work 1

Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:karuṇāmṛta
Cover rubric:karuṇāmṛtam (mahārāṣṭṛā-bhāṣāyām)
Incipit: ???:
śrīgaṇeśāya nama || śrīsarasvatīye nama śrīgurubhyo nama || oṃ namoṃ jīyakadaṃ tāā daivāṃ gaurīcaṃ yāsutā || karuṇākarādayāṃ vaṃtā laṃbo darā ādīmurttī ||1|| namanamāpte sārajemāyeṃ || majalāptapādṛṣṭī pāheṃ ||vāceṃhārī guṇagāyo au
Final rubric: ???:
itī śrī bhāgavṛte mahāpurāṇe | karuṇāmratagraṃtha saṃpūryām astu || śrī kranpārthaṇamastu
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:22
Dimension:10.4 x 14.9 cm
Foliation: formula: 1-4, 17-24
Condition:"excellent"

Hands

Additions:

Msitakes written over.

Decoration

Color:double daNDas in red.

History

Origin:"not given" "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

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Record revised:September 2010