University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Indic 6

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9288

Shelfmark:

Ms. Indic 6

Title:

Bisnu Purān

Place:

India

India TGN

Date:

between 1800 and 1850?

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 136, 4 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 300 x 180 (210 x 110) mm bound to 308 x 190 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bourelier, Claude

Claude Bourelier WIKIDATA

Bourelier, Françoise

Françoise Bourelier WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: 15 long lines, border-ruled.
Origin: The copy is not dated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century, in India.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Binding: Papier-mâché́ covers painted and lacquered with a flowering tree within a polylobed arch on exteriors and doublures. Exterior cover trees are on a green background with yellow arch and orange frame; doublure trees are on an orange background with yellow arch and green frame. A piece of bright blue textile embroidered with white thread covers the spine.
Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in green, beige, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue. Rubrications in red. The first opening has two polychrome and gold miniatures and the text in cloudbands (f. 1v-2r). Nine other miniatures in bright, primary colors also appear (f. 4v, 31r, 34v, 42v, 48v, 63v, 77v, 96v, 126r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (London), 2016.
Formerly owned by Françoise and Claude Bourelier.

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts

poems

paintings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Persian

Avatars (Religion)

Hindu mythology

Vishnu (Hindu deity)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9972460113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3t14tw1c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania