Manuscript Identifiers

Collection:UPenn Ms. Coll. 390
Item:2626
Repository:Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Institution:University of Pennsylvania
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Catalog:Poleman
Item:1354

Contents

Work 1

Locus:f. 1v-54 (complete)
Author:śrīdharasvāmin
Part:ad skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1v:
athāṣṭame caturviṃśaty adhyāye manuvarṇanaṃ
tatsutai ṛṣi deveṃdra mūrtibhiś ca hareḥ saha 1||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 08.01.1 Sb08_002.tif )
Final rubric: f. 54:
iti śrībhāvārthadīvikāyāmaṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśeti tamodhyāyaḥ ||24|| aṣṭamaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ || || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 8.24.61 Sb08_560.tif )
Filiation:UP2628 and UP2619 and likely filiated with UP2623 and UP2624 as well as, UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627.
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Work 2

Locus:f. 1v-54 (complete)
Author:kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana vyāsa
Title:bhāgavatapurāṇa
Part:skandha 8
Incipit: f. 1v:
rājovāca svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro[r] vaṃśo'yaṃ vistarācch{ru}taḥ || ...
(BhP. 8.01.01 Sb08_001.tif )
Final rubric: f. 54:
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṃdhe āditamasyāvattārakathanaṃnāmacaturviṃśotitamodhyāyaḥ ||24|| samāptāyamaṣṭamaḥ ||8||
(cf. BhP. 8.24.61 Sb08_560.tif )
Filiation:UP2628 and UP2619 and likely filiated with UP2623 and UP2624 as well as, UP2618, UP2620, UP2621, UP2622, and UP2627
Language:Sanskrit in Devanagari script

Physical description

Form:folia
Material:country paper.
Extent:55
Dimension:18 x 31.7 cm
Foliation:last folios is blank
Collation:single folia
Condition:very good
Binding: Ms held together with a paper band with writing.
Layout:fourteen to nineteen lines

Hands

Additions:

ff. 1r-23v:
A few marginal corrections and lengthy additions by the scribe. The text on a few folios only continues in the right margin; ff. 24r-54:
A few marginal corrections. The text continues into the right margin on most folios.

Decoration

Color: ff. 1r-23v:
Mistakes covered over with yellow or indicated by short vertical strokes above the syllable in question. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation colophons and introductions of speakers; ff. 24r-54:
double daṇḍas and every other syllable of colophons in red. Mistakes covered over with yellow.

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

f. 1v:
Commentary:
oṃ namo bhaga{va}te vāsudevāya oṃ athāṣṭame caturviṃśaty adhyāye manuvarṇanaṃ
tatsutai ṛṣide veṃdra mūrtibhiś ca hareḥ saha 1|| ...
(cf. BhP.S.BhD. 08.01.1 Sb08_002.tif )
rājovāca svāyaṃbhuvasyeha guro[r] vaṃśo'yaṃ vistarācch{ru}taḥ || ...
(BhP. 8.01.01 Sb08_001.tif )
f. 54:
Commentary:
iti śrībhāvārthadīvikāyāmaṣṭamaskaṃdhe caturviṃśeti tamodhyāyaḥ ||24|| aṣṭamaskaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ || || ||
(cf. BhP.S.BhD.8.24.61 Sb08_560.tif )
iti śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe aṣṭamaskaṃdhe āditamasyāvattārakathanaṃnāmacaturviṃśotitamodhyāyaḥ ||24|| samāptāyamaṣṭamaḥ ||8||
Record revised:???date mo.??? 2010