[Bhāgavatapurāṇa].
[بهگوت پوران].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Persian

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa.

Hindu mythology.

Avatars (Religion).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Acquired by the Penn Libraries, 1953.

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper ; 245 x 155 (190 x 105) mm bound to 250 x 158 mm.

Place of Publication:

[India?], [18--?]

Language Note:

Persian.

Summary:

Selections from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Text begins with invocation to Krishna and Ganesha in Sanskrit transliterated into Persian. Some pages are missing.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Contemporary Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto (1-118, 8 unnumbered leaves, 1-40, 3 unnumbered leaves). Modern continuous foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Layout: 15-19 long lines.

Script: Written in nastaʻliq in at least two hands in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Binding: Half covers; brown leather spine and corners with blue-green marbled paper sides over pasteboard. Spine is cracked and missing pieces, fabric spine lining is clearly visible. Plain paper pastedowns.

Origin: Likely copied in India in the 19th century.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1912.

OCLC:

1083522980

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