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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 3

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: An incomplete paper manuscript of the eight aṣṭaka of the Ṛgvedasaṃhitā. The text includes various khilas and has been corrected by various hands.
ff. 1r-48v
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā, Aṣṭaka 8.
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian Paper.

11 × 24.5 cm.

Extent: 48 ff.

Condition

Incomplete.

Ff. 1 and 38 are supplied by two modern hands, to replace missing leaves. Ff. 2, 30-31, 40-42, 51-52 are missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink, accented in red.

History

Origin: Vikrama 1514 / 1457 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. 2, p. 3-4.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship