University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Coll 390, Item 2673

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9451

Shelfmark:

Ms. Coll 390, Item 2673

Title:

Vaijayantaya

Scribe:

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947

Ananda Coomaraswamy WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1900-1910.

twentieth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Prakrit

Prakrit WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 paper ; 34 x 22 cm

Note:

Mistakes blacked out; right vertical margin marked with single black line.
Title from spine title.
Written in 36 lines per leaf.
283 leaves foliated 287-570, upper right recto.
Probably produced before 1910, based on the date of Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2675, dated 1906.
Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2670.
Watermarks of Britannia and T. H. Saunders Fine.
Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.
Likely formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy based on similar items in Penn's collection, for example: Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2671, Item 2672, Item 2674, and Item 2675, where he is clearly identified.
Donated to the University of Pennsylvania before 1938.

Keyword:

treatises

Manuscripts

watermarks

Manuscripts, Prakrit

manuals (instructional materials)

Buddhist architecture

Idols and images

Stūpas

Buddhist arts

Buddhism

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9975367593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tm72h4s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania