MS. Wilson 195
MSS. Wilson
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Laghuśabdenduśekhara, 18th cent.?
Contents
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper
Extent: ii + 230 + ii. In the original foliation 85 + 68 + 61 (really 51, as ff. 42–51 are lost) + 26 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 33.7 × 16.8 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink.
probably three hands were employed: (1) ff. 26–85; (2) ff. 154–204; (3) ff. 1–25, 86–153, 205–230 are perhaps by one hand, which shows marked traces of Kaśmīrī influence.
History
Origin: 18th cent.?
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. 366, p. 47
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. 366, p. 47
Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 366, p. 165
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