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

Title

Other related names

• Bickford, George P, former owner
• Robbins, Kenneth X, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9969570713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/946660708
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6957071

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Summary

Early manuscript leaf from Nepal, with a short section taken from a teaching (sūtra) on Mahāyāna Buddhist wisdom. There are three painted images: a larger, central figure, possibly the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, with two attendants on either side. These images are painted over the original script and so are later than the text.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 5 lines per leaf.
   
• 1 leaf.
   
• Dated 1200-1399 based on previous appraisal.
   
• Corrected text in margins; vertical borders indicated with triple black line surrounding three paintings.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by George P. Bickford (Cleveland, Ohio).
   
• Formerly owned by Ken Robbins (Potomac, Maryland).
   
• Gift of Ken Robbins, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Wisdom--Religious aspects--Buddhism--Early works to 1800
• Mahayana Buddhism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• Bodhisattvas--Art--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Treatises
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--13th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--14th century
• Manuscripts--Nepal--13th century
• Manuscripts--Nepal--14th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Indic 16: Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā 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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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illustrations, f. 1r