Rājavalli, 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:

Likely formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th-century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (book plate with his name, Norman Chapel, Broad Campden).

Donated to the University of Pennsylvania before 1938.

Physical Description:

1 item (125 leaves) : paper ; 34 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2674

Place of Publication:

1906.

Language Note:

In Prakrit (Sinhalese)

Summary:

First part is an unidentified manual on the arts and architecture (Buddhism), possibly a section of the Vaijayantaya. Mention made of desirous relations between a husband and wife in an inserted note (Part 1, folio 25). Second part is from the Rājavalli, copied from existing manuscripts of this title (folio iii).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 39-46 lines per leaf.

125 leaves foliated [i], 1-62, [i-iii], 1-57, [i-ii], upper right recto.

Dated 1906 (f. iii recto).

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

Watermarks of letters in cursive script 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 2675.

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 5362 (UP 2674).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2674.

OCLC:

973561497