[Bhāgavatapurāṇa].

Abstract:

Selections from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Text begins with invocation to Krishna and Ganesha in Sanskrit transliterated into Persian. Some pages are missing.

Date:

1800

Identifier:

9977459936903681; (OCoLC)1083522980; (OCoLC)on1083522980

Language:

Persian; Sanskrit

Provenance:

Acquired by the Penn Libraries, 1953.

Publisher:

[India?], [18--?]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1912.html

Subject:

Hindu mythology.; Avatars (Religion); Manuscripts, Persian -- 19th century.; Codices (bound manuscripts)

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper; 245 x 155 (190 x 105) mm bound to 250 x 158 mm.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in at least two hands in black ink; pointed.; Ms. codex.; Binding: Half covers; brown leather spine and corners with blue-green marbled paper sides over pasteboard. Spine is cracked and missing pieces, fabric spine lining is clearly visible. Plain paper pastedowns.; Origin: Likely copied in India in the 19th century.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto (1-118, 8 unnumbered leaves, 1-40, 3 unnumbered leaves). Modern continuous foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.; Layout: 15-19 long lines.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1912