Collection: | Indic Manuscripts |
Item: | 50 |
Repository: | John Hay Library |
Institution: | Brown University |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America |
Catalog: | Poleman |
Item: | 815 |
Locus: | f. ?-? (incomplete) |
Author: | ?? |
Title: | ?? |
Part: | ?? |
Incipit: |
f.1r, lines 1-2: śrīvāṇigirijā | śrīrāyup|adhatopakṣomukhāṃgeṣu | yelokānastot|am|a?? ttivihitā | Note: (text loss due to frayed edges on right margin) pūjitāvassuraibhūyāsuḥpuruṣottamā?s ṃbbujabhavaśrīkaṃdharāśreyane ||va ||anisakalabhūvanarakṣaṇaprabhūvulayenayādyuvaina | Note: These are the first lines of the ādiparvamu of the tikkanna mahābhāratamu. |
Explicit: |
f.180r, lines 3-4: dānidṛpadarājatnayayudapastiyasvayaṃsvarotsavamunapuḍumāḍaganinavārudriṣṭigaviganapulamellaganinavāruparamakātukamunā || va || Note: These are the final lines in the manuscript |
Language: | Telugu in Telugu script |
Form: | folia |
Material: | palm leaf |
Extent: | 183 |
Dimension: | 4 x 43 cm |
Foliation: | formula: [i], 1-180, [ii-iii] |
Condition: | Good condition; browned leaves; minimal fraying at the edges; a few cracked and split leaves that don't interfere with legibility; some major worm holes that create lacunae and compromise structural integrity of folio; Two inches on left side of folio 86 are broken; Two inches on right side of folio 1 and 174 are broken off; Some loss of text; Handwriting difficult to decipher. |
Binding: |
No bindings.
Condition: good. |
Layout: |
Writing ends middle of folio folio 72v Writing ends middle of folio folio 132v Only one line of writing on folio folio 163v |
Additions: |
Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “ādiparvaṃ” folio 1r Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 22r Unidentifiable markings scattered around left margin. Only Telugu character ma is legible folio 26v Note in left margin: “bayyenasmatulaṃ” folio 35v Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” “mūḍra āśuna” “mu” folio 44r Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 73r Notes in both left and right margin: left margin: 7 lines of illegible text right margin: 5 lines of illegible text folio 107v Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 108r Note in left margin: “śrīrāma” “śubhamastu” “avighnamastu” folio 164r |
Illustration: | Flowers in left margin folio 133r |
Acquisition: |
(Stuart C. Sherman (1977: 79)) describes the acquisition of the Indic manuscripts in the Brown University Library as follows:
Indic ManuscriptsA collection of fifty-three codices (not after 1800) in Burmese, Cambodian, Telugu Skandhas, Bengali, and Sinhalese script on palm leaves with lacquered wood covers tied with cords. Subjects include Buddhist canon, PÄlÄ« grammar and lexicons, Epics, Dance, Drama, and a treatise on midwifery and diseases of women. Recorded in ( A Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, by Horace I. Poleman, New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938. ) Register available. Gift of Baptist missionaries to Burma, among whom was Adoniram Judson Brown Class of 1807, who first translated the Bible into Burmese. |
SubjectLC: | Manuscripts, Telugu |
SubjectSL: | Mahābhārata |
Record revised: | 25 December 2009 |
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