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

Title

Bisnu Purān.
بسن پران

Other related names

• Bourelier, Françoise, former owner
• Bourelier, Claude, former owner
• Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm), vendor

Call number

Ms. Indic 6
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972460113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/988031660

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1850?

Place

India

Summary

Copy of selections from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa translated into Persian. Eleven images including avatārs of Viṣṇu.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   

Extent

136, 4 leaves : 300 x 180 (210 x 110) mm bound to 308 x 190 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Papier-mâché́ covers painted and lacquered with a flowering tree within a polylobed arch on exteriors and doublures. Exterior cover trees are on a green background with yellow arch and orange frame; doublure trees are on an orange background with yellow arch and green frame. A piece of bright blue textile embroidered with white thread covers the spine.

Layout

15 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock is border-ruled in green, beige, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue. Rubrications in red. The first opening has two polychrome and gold miniatures and the text in cloudbands (f. 1v-2r). Nine other miniatures in bright, primary colors also appear (f. 4v, 31r, 34v, 42v, 48v, 63v, 77v, 96v, 126r).

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Françoise and Claude Bourelier.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (London), 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mythology
• Avatars (Religion)
• Avatars (Religion)
• Hindu mythology
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Poems
• Paintings (visual works)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Bisnu Purān.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illustration: Ganesha and Saraswati
• fol. 2r — Illustration
• fol. 4v — Illustration: Prahlada and his mother with Vishnu, Lakshmi, and Garuda
• fol. 31r — Illustration: Narasimha disemboweling King Hiranyakashipu as the king's son Prahlada and wife Kayadu look on
• fol. 34r — Illustration: Shiva with Prahlada
• fol. 42v — Illustration: Goddess Bhavani Kali
• fol. 48v — Illustration: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
• fol. 63v — Illustration
• fol. 77v — Illustration
• fol. 96v — Illustration
• fol. 126r — Illustration