MS. Max Müller Memorial e. 1
MSS. Max Müller Memorial
Contents
Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the eighth aṣṭaka of the Ṛgveda in a padapāṭha text. The colophone is much worn and in parts illegible.
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Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 8 Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.
12 × 18 cm.
Extent: 109 ff.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom-right margin, verso.
Condition
Complete. Edges of the leaves are slightly worn away and have been conserved.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink, accented in red. Occassional marginal notes and colophon in a different hand.
Binding
Cardboard cover, Western 19th-century binding.
History
Origin: 1521 Vikrama / 1464 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. 7, p. 6.)Funding of Cataloguing
Balliol-Bodley Scholarship