MS. Wilson 107

MSS. Wilson

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa, A.D. 1740.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Viṣṇu Purāṇa

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 236 + ii. The original foliation makes 240, as ff. 3–25 are replaced by ff. 3–21.

Dimensions (binding): 34.9 × 16.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

f. 236: likhītaṃ Pūraṃda kāestha śrīvāstaka | Kāsīmaddhaiṃ |

History

Origin: A.D. 1740

f. 236: samata 1760 (= A. D. 1704, not 1740 as Bodl. catal.) samai pūāra 2 vadī sātmī pothī samāpta |

Provenance and Acquisition

The collection of Horace Hayman Wilson was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1842.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 110 , p. 15

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Appendix to Vol. I (Oxford, 1909), no. 110 , p. 15

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 110, pp. 62-63

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries