Vaijayantaya. Vol. 2, circa 1900-1910

Contributor:

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947 (scribe)

Date:

1900

Description:

Buddhist manual on the arts, especially for subsidiary iconography and artifacts (for example, designs for objects made of gold, weapons, furniture, burial mounds [dagoba or stūpa], and more). Copied from existing manuscripts of this title.

Language:

Prakrit languages

Provenance:

Likely formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy based on similar items in Penn's collection, for example: Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2671, Item 2672, Item 2674, and Item 2675, where he is clearly identified.; Donated to the University of Pennsylvania before 1938.

Subject:

Buddhist architecture; Buddhist arts; Idols and images -- Buddhism; Stūpas; Idols and images; Buddhism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Treatises; Watermarks; Manuscripts, Prakrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (283 leaves) : paper; 34 x 22 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from spine title.; Written in 36 lines per leaf.; 283 leaves foliated 287-570, upper right recto.; Probably produced before 1910, based on the date of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2675, dated 1906.; Mistakes blacked out; right vertical margin marked with single black line.; Watermarks of Britannia and T. H. Saunders Fine.; Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.; Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2670.; In Prakrit (Sinhalese)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2673

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts