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Title

Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
[بهگوت پوران]

Call number

Ms. Codex 1912
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459936903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083522980

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

18--?

Place

India?

Summary

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

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

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

15-19 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in at least two hands in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Acquired by the Penn Libraries, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mythology
• Avatars (Religion)

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [Bhāgavatapurāṇa].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• Inside back cover — Note pasted in
• Loose leaf Side 1 — Notations