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

Title

Other related names

• Brown, W. Norman 1892-1975, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959178833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/829958959
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32f9h

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1700s

Summary

The size of a pocket book, this manuscript most likely was carried by the jyotiṣī (astrologer) for consultation. It deals with the auspicious and inauspicious consequences of encountering different birds and animals. The usual term for omen in Sanskrit śakuna means "bird" as well as "omen". Omens have played and continue to play a significant role in people's lives, with many quite attentive to the significance of various animal sounds and movements, especially bird calls. Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves.
   
• Significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; text surrounds 24 highly detailed paintings of various sizes. Paintings are of landscapes with different animals, especially birds, but also lions, donkeys, dogs and other animals.
   
• Previously had separate folios and is now bound on left side as a codex with blue European, marbled paper.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Birdsongs--Symbolic aspects
• Omens--India
• Hindu astrology
• Hindu astrology
• Animals--Symbolic aspects
• Animals--Symbolic aspects
• Animals in art
• Animals in art
• Omens
• Birdsongs
• India

Genres

• Handbooks and manuals
• miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3025: Text on animal omens 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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Decorations

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