Bisnu Purān.

Abstract:

Copy of selections from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa translated into Persian. Eleven images including avatārs of Viṣṇu.

Date:

1800

Identifier:

9972460113503681; (OCoLC)988031660; (OCoLC)ocn988031660; (PU)7246011-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Persian; Sanskrit

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (London), 2016.; Formerly owned by Françoise and Claude Bourelier.

Publisher:

[India], [between 1800 and 1850?]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/msindic6.html

Subject:

Hindu mythology.; Avatars (Religion); Manuscripts, Persian.; Poems.; Manuscripts -- India -- 19th century.; Miniatures (paintings); Manuscripts.; Paintings (visual works)

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

136, 4 leaves : paper, illustrations; 300 x 180 (210 x 110) mm bound to 308 x 190 mm

Personal Name:

Vishnu; Bourelier, Claude, former owner.; Bourelier, Françoise, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm), vendor.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Layout: 15 long lines, border-ruled.; Origin: The copy is not dated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century, in India.; Title from incipit (f. 1r).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.; Binding: Papier-mâché́ covers painted and lacquered with a flowering tree within a polylobed arch on exteriors and doublures. Exterior cover trees are on a green background with yellow arch and orange frame; doublure trees are on an orange background with yellow arch and green frame. A piece of bright blue textile embroidered with white thread covers the spine.; Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in green, beige, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue. Rubrications in red. The first opening has two polychrome and gold miniatures and the text in cloudbands (f. 1v-2r). Nine other miniatures in bright, primary colors also appear (f. 4v, 31r, 34v, 42v, 48v, 63v, 77v, 96v, 126r).; Persian.

Physical Location:

Ms. Indic 6