Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954196113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774415792

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Summary

16 diagrams of different birds including the bulbul (nightingale), baṭaka (duck), and the kuliṅga (forked-tailed shrike); lists of omens associated with birds are to the right of each diagram; possibly a handbook used for telling the future; folios oriented to turn from right to left and not bottom to top as in typical manuscripts.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1, [2], 3-8, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; painted diagrams of birds; vertical and horizontal borders marked with double red or yellow line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Birds--India
• Hindu astrology
• Omens--Religious aspects

Genres

• Diagrams
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1914: Bulbul are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Bird, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Bird, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Bird, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Bird, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Bird, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Bird, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Bird, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Bird, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Bird, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Bird, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Bird, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Bird, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Bird, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Bird, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Bird, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Bird, f. 8v