MS. Wilson 354
MSS. Wilson
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Brahma Purāṇa, 17th and 18th cent.?
Contents
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper
Extent: ii + 85 + ii. really 86, as f. 75 is double. The original foliation makes 88 leaves, but ff. 12, 13, 79 are missing
Dimensions (binding): 28.3 × 17.5 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink.
History
Origin: 17th and 18th cent.?
the oldest part is perhaps of the end of the 17th century, the rest of the middle of the 18th.
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. 64, pp. 8-9
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. 64, pp. 8-9
Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 64, p. 20
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