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

Title

Vaijayantaya.

Other related names

• Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947, scribe (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066552)
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066552)

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2673
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975367593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973561060
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tm72h4s

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Prakrit

Origin

Date

circa 1900-1910

Summary

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.

Notes

• Mistakes blacked out; right vertical margin marked with single black line.
   
• 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.
   
• Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2670.
   
• Watermarks of Britannia and T. H. Saunders Fine.
   
• Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.
   

Extent

1 item (283 leaves) : 34 x 22 cm

Support

Paper

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.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Treatises
• Watermarks
• Manuscripts, Prakrit
• Manuals (instructional materials)

Licenses

• Text

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