Vaijayantaya. Vol. 2, circa 1900-1910.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947, scribe, former owner.

Language:

Prakrit languages

Subjects (All):

Buddhist architecture.

Buddhist arts.

Idols and images--Buddhism.

Stūpas.

Idols and images.

Buddhism.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Prakrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Likely formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy based on similar items in Penn's collection, for example: Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2671, Item 2672, Item 2674, and Item 2675, where he is clearly identified.

Donated to the University of Pennsylvania before 1938.

Physical Description:

1 item (283 leaves) : paper ; 34 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2673

Place of Publication:

circa 1900-1910.

Language Note:

In Prakrit (Sinhalese)

Summary:

Buddhist manual on the arts, especially for subsidiary iconography and artifacts (for example, designs for objects made of gold, weapons, furniture, burial mounds [dagoba or stūpa], and more). Copied from existing manuscripts of this title.

Notes:

Title from spine title.

Written in 36 lines per leaf.

283 leaves foliated 287-570, upper right recto.

Probably produced before 1910, based on the date of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2675, dated 1906.

Mistakes blacked out; right vertical margin marked with single black line.

Watermarks of Britannia and T. H. Saunders Fine.

Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.

Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2670.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 5358 (UP 2673).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2673.

OCLC:

973561060