Waijayantaya, 1906.

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:

Formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Manuscript was copied from another manuscript owned by Kirihami Muhandiri who lived in Embulpure, Harispatuwa in Sri Lanka (front folio iv recto). Sticker from bookbinder on back inside cover: The Col. Apoth. Co. Ltd., Printers and Bookbinders. Coomaraswamy wrote his name at the beginning in pencil (folio i, verso).

Gift of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to the University of Pennsylvania, before 1938.

Physical Description:

1 item (318 leaves) : paper ; 33 x 21 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2671

Other Title:

Vaijayantaya

Place of Publication:

1906.

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).

Notes:

Title from spine title; alternate title Vaijayantaya supplied by cataloger.

Written in 29 lines per leaf.

318 leaves foliated [i-iv], 1-311, [i-iii], upper right recto.

Dated 1906 (f. 311r).

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

Watermark of 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 2672.

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 5360 (UP 2671).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2671.

OCLC:

973561154