Vaijayantaya, 1906.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

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

Language:

Prakrit languages

Subjects (All):

Buddhist architecture.

Buddhist arts.

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. Coomaraswamy's bookplate sticker, inside front cover.

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

Physical Description:

1 item (163 leaves) : paper ; 34 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2672

Place of Publication:

1906.

Language Note:

In Prakrit (Sinhalese)

Summary:

Possibly a copy of the Vaijayantaya, a Buddhist manual on the arts and architecture. Work is divided into 7 parts. A newspaper clipping of a book review of the novel The Genius by Theodore Dreiser, glued to another printed note saying - Extract from Women's Journal, London from International Press Cutting Bureau, London, W.C.I - and stamped Feb 1929, was placed within the pages of this codex, perhaps as a bookmark.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 23 lines per leaf.

163 leaves foliated 1-22, 1-24, 1-24, 1-24, 1-24, 1-24, 1-21, upper right recto.

Dated December 14th, 1906 (f. 21v).

Mistakes blacked out; vertical margins marked with single black line.

Watermarks of N. P. Fernando Colombo and a male South Asian figure in a uniform.

Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.

Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2671.

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 5361 (UP 2672).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2672.

OCLC:

973561404