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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 11

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Sāmaveda in a padapāṭha text. The two ārcikas form two distinct, individually foliated manuscripts, bound together in the West.
1. Ff. 1r-83v. Ff. 28 and 29 are one leaf.
Sāmaveda, ārcika 1.
Colophon: f. 83v: saṃvat 1680 varṣe mārgaśirṣa śuddha 14 bhaume tripāṭhī puruṣottamasuta keśava paṭhanārtham [...] ||
2. Ff. 1r-82v. Ff. 69-79 are missing.
Sāmaveda, ārcika 2.
Colophon: f. 82v: svasti saṃvat 1605 varṣe mahāmāṃgalācaitramāse śuklapakṣe caturthyaṃ tithau ravi dine śrīvṛ- ddhanagare vāstavya [...] trivāḍīśavāsutānāṃ [...] paṭhanārtham [...] ihaiva vāstavya ābhyaṃtaranāgarajñātīya tri- vāḍībālasutena śrīdharena mahārudraprītyartham uttarapadapustakam likhitvā||
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.

10 × 24.5 cm.

Extent: 153 ff.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.

Condition

First part complete, in good condition.

Second part not complete, ff. 69-79 missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink

History

Origin: First manuscript written in vikrama 1680, second in vikrama 1605. / First manuscript written in vikrama 1623 CE, second in 1568 CE. Nepal.

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. 9, p. 7)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship