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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 6

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: An incomplete paper manuscript of the fifth aṣṭaka of the Ṛgveda in a padapāṭha text.
Ff. 1r-75v.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 5.
Colophon: f. 75: saṃ° 1580 varṣe āśvana śudi 7 adyeha śrī vṛddhanagare agnihotrā unāthiyāsutaharisutanānāṃ paṭhanāṛthaṃ likhitam
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian Paper.

9.5 × 23 cm.

Extent: 59 ff. Ff. 38-40 and 45-57 are missing.
Foliation: Original Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.
Foliation: Continuous modern Arabic numerals in pencil, bottom left margin, recto.

Condition

Incomplete. Ff. 1 and 5 have been supplied by two other hands.

Marginal notes and corrections made by various hands.

A considerable damage from insect.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink, accented in red.

History

Origin: Vikrama 1580 / 1523 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

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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. 4, p. 5.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship