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Title

Majmūʻah-ʼi Bhagat Māl.
[مجموعۀ بهگت مال]

Authors

• Nābhādāsa, active 1585
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Damāl Dās, scribe
  دمال داس.
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Anderson Galleries, Inc, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 100
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441497
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644035
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441497

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Hindustani

Origin

Date

between 1832 and 1846

Place

India?

Summary

Collection of various prose, poetry, and hymns related to Krishna and Ganesha. A section of the Bhagat Māl (f. 1r-21v), followed by an incomplete prose account of Krishna's visit to the house of a rāja in Persian (f. 24v-51v) and finishing with a set of Hymns to Krishna and Ganesha (54r-127v). The collection is chiefly in Hindustani written in Perso-Arabic script, with about 20 leaves in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

127 leaves : 153 x 90 (135 x 72) mm bound to 159 x 97 mm

Foliation

Hindu-Arabic numeral foliation in ink, center fore-edge margin recto (1-128 with some misnumbering). Component texts are also foliated individually. Continuous modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in green half covers with marbled sides.

Layout

Several different layouts: f. 1r-7v in 16 long lines; f. 8v-21v in 16-18 lines with 6 lines in three sets of two inset on each page; f. 24v-51v in 13 long lines; f. 54r-67v, 76r-119v, and 124r-127v laid out in landscape, with the text running parallel to the gutter, generally with two lines inset at the head of the page, then 7 lines in two columns; f. 69r-75v, 8 lines in two columns written diagonally; f. 77r-79v written in 12 lines divided into three groups of four lines each; f. 119r-123v, also in landscape, written as blocks of prose, 9 lines to a page.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Border-ruled in red for text areas, including between columns. Six full-page illustrations in color (f. 23v, 53v, 60v, 89r, 100r, 114r) and two smaller illustrations set into the text (f. 76r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Purchased in "Benares India, Dec 1905" (note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso).
   
• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926, lot 579 (catalog cutting pasted across the back inside cover and last flyleaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu saints
• Hindu literature
• Hindu hymns

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Poems

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Majmūʻah-i bhagat-māl].
• fol. 24v — [Incomplete prose account of Krishna's visit to the house of a rāja]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "Oliver Henry Perkins"
• fol. 23v — Polychrome illustration: Fluting Krishna
• fol. 52v — Notations
• fol. 53v — Polychrome illustration: central figure with 5 attendants
• fol. 54r — [Reading oriented along long edge]
• fol. 60v — Polychrome illustration: palace with flags
• fol. 69r — [Reading oriented along short edge]
• fol. 76r — Small polychrome illustration: Ganesha (left)
• fol. 76r — Small polychrome illustration:
• fol. 76r — [Reading oriented along long edge]
• fol. 77r — [Reading oriented along short edge]
• fol. 81r — Polychrome illustration: Krishna and devotee
• fol. 89r — Polychrome illustration: central figure with two attendants
• fol. 100r — Polychrome illustration: Narasimha disemboweling the demon king Hiranyakashipu as a devotee looks on
• fol. 114r — Polychrome illustration: Rama, Sita, and Balarama
• Inside back cover — Catalog listing pasted in