Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3027: Sinhalese protective charm yantras University of Pennsylvania 2017-01-31 2017-01-31 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3027: Sinhalese protective charm yantras 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/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title supplied by cataloger. 8 leaves. Text and diagrams engraved in palm leaf and rubbed with black ink. Palm leaf with hole in center for string, which is missing. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3027 9959103633503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828633737 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39w8s Manuscript is a compendium of cure-amulets meant to be carried about or worn as protective charms. Contains diagrams (yantras) of cosmologies, the human body, deities, and animals along with various mantras to be recited during the performance of healing rites and to ward of danger. Such diagrammatic manuscripts are found throughout South Asia on palm leaves or sheets of copper. In Sinhalese, Jaffna Tamil, and Malayalam Sinhalese protective charm yantras former owner Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947 former owner Brown, W. Norman 1892-1975

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 1 item (8 leaves) : 7 x 17 cm Illustrations and charts, f. [1v] and f. [2r] Illustration and table, f. [2v] and f. [3r] Diagrams and charts, f. [3v] and f. [4r] Illustrations, f. [4v] and f. [5r] Illustrations, f. [5v] and f. [6r] Illustrations, f. [6v] and f. [7r] Diagrams, f. [7v] and f. [8r] circa 1700-1850 Formerly owned by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, given to W. Norman Brown circa 1937. Formerly owned by W. Norman Brown, given by his estate to the University of Pennsylania Libraries after 1975. Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Yantras Yantras Mantras Mantras Healing--Religious aspects Healing--Religious aspects Healing--India Amulets (Hinduism) Amulets (Hinduism) Rites and ceremonies--India Rites and ceremonies Healing India Handbooks and manuals diagrams Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century 18th century 19th century Indian Paper India Diagrams