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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