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Title

Maltimadu
मल्तिमदु

Authors

• Mañjhana, active 16th century

Other related names

• Pacholi Sukhram, scribe
• Brown, W. Norman 1892-1975, former owner

Call number

Ms. Indic 28 Ms. Indic 28
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970970493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958839528
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nk36r1q

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hindi

Origin

Date

1740

Summary

Illustrated love story in Hindi depicting battle, animals, domestic, and erotic scenes. Possibly from Rajasthan.

Notes

• Title from title notes accompanying the manuscript.
   
• Written in 6-15 lines per leaf.
   
• 65 leaves sporadically foliated.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1797 (1740) from notes accompanying the manuscript.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double black with center red line.
   
• Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3024.
   
• Scribe is Pacholi Sukhram, according to notes accompanying the manuscript.
   

Extent

1 item (65 leaves) : 19 x 25 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by W. Norman Brown, given by his estate to the University of Pennsylania Libraries after 1975.
   

Subjects topical

• Love poetry, Indic
• Hindu mythology
• Hindu mythology--Early works to 1800
• Love poetry, Indic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Poems
• drawings (visual works)
• illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century

Keywords

• 18th century
• Indian
• Paper
• India
• Illustration

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