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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 7

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the sixth aṣṭaka of the Ṛgveda in a padapāṭha text.
ff. 1r-58v
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 6
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.

11 × 29.5 cm.

Extent: 58 ff.

Condition

Complete.

Edges of some of the leaves are slightly worn away or torn, especially ff. 1 and 58.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink. Accented in red.

History

Origin: Vikrama 1499 / 1442 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by Macdonell, Arthur Anthony Arthur Anthony Macdonell in 1907.

Record Sources

Description by Barbora Sojkova, based on observation of the manuscript and existing descriptions.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card, for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Libraries' Admissions Office.

Bibliography

    Descriptions of the manuscript

    A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Purchased for the Administrators of the Max Müller Memorial Fund, Gambier-Parry, T. R. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1922, no. 5, p. 5.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship