Bisnu Purān.
بسن پران.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bourelier, Françoise, former owner.

Bourelier, Claude, former owner.

Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm), vendor.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Viṣṇupurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Persian

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Hindu mythology.

Avatars (Religion).

Genre:

poems

paintings (visual works)

miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts, Persian.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Françoise and Claude Bourelier.

Sold by Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (London), 2016.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[India], [between 1800 and 1850?]

Language Note:

Persian.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).

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

Layout: 15 long lines, border-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

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).

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.

Origin: The copy is not dated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century, in India.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 6.

OCLC:

988031660