MS.Sansk.e.92(R)

Sanskrit, miscellaneous

Summary of Contents: Four illuminated paper rolls of the Mahābhārata, written in North India in the late eighteenth–early nineteenth century.

Vyāsa , Mahābhārata

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: roll

Support: Paper.

14.9

Extent: 4 rolls.

Condition

Complete, in good condition.

Layout

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Decoration

Several miniatures and decorations.

Binding

Cardboard cover, library binding.

History

Origin: Late 18th or 19th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from Falk, T. T. Falk through Jonathan Katz on 5 November 1985.

Availability

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Bibliography

Descriptions of the manuscript

A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library Clay Sanskrit library, Formigatti, Camillo Alessio (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2019)

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation