Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:515
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1376

Contents

Work 1

Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:rasapañcādhyāya = skanDa 10, aDyAya 29-33
Incipit: || śrīśukauvāca || bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śaradotphullamallikāḥ
vīkṣya raṃtuṃ manaś cakre pogamāpām upāśritaḥ 1
(BhP. 10.29.1abcd)
Explicit: ... anichaṃtyo yayur gopyaḥ svagṛhān bhagavan prīyā 40 vikrī
Note: (Ahlborn) This is the beginning of the last verse of the rasapaJcAdhyAya.
(BhP. 10.33.38cd-39a)
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

   Work 1.1

   Final rubric: śra iti śrī bhāgava[me]te mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe rāsakrīdāyāṃ ekonatriśodhyayaḥ ||[39]{29}||

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:paper
Extent:25
Dimension:14 x 27 cm
Foliation:folios: 25ff; numbered to 24.
formula: 1-24, [25]
Condition:good - very good
Layout:

The ms is oddly construed. It is folded in half like a book, but is numbered by folio. Only half of the folio is written on leaving many blank "pages" (i.e., half folios). The text starts in the middle (i.e., when the folios are let naturally to fall open).

Decoration

Color:Some of the colophons and speakers are written in red.

History

Origin:"not given" "unknown"
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

|| śrīśukauvāca || bhagavān api tā rātrīḥ śaradotphullamallikāḥ
vīkṣya raṃtuṃ manaś cakre pogamāpām upāśritaḥ 1 ...
(BhP. 10.29.1abcd) śra iti śrī bhāgava[me]te mahāpurāṇe daśamaskaṃdhe rāsakrīdāyāṃ ekonatriśodhyayaḥ ||[39]{29}|| ... anichaṃtyo yayur gopyaḥ svagṛhān bhagavan prīyā 40 vikrī
Note: (Ahlborn) This is the beginning of the last verse of the rAsakrIDA.
(BhP. 10.33.38cd-39a)
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010