MSS. Wilson 499, 500
MSS. Wilson
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Atharva-veda Saṃhitā, about A. D. 1828.
Contents
This MS. is bound up in two volumes.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper of European manufacture. Two kinds are used (1) in 499 and 500, ff. 1–92, water-marked ‘E. Wise 1828’; (2) in 500, ff. 93–188, water-marked ‘J. Whatman.’
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 24.4 × 17.1 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī.
History
Origin: A. D. 1828.
no date is given, but the paper being partly water-marked ‘1828,’ that muat approximately be the date of the MS.; evidently a copy made for H. H. Wilson.
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:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 937, pp. 38-39
Availability
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Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 937, pp. 38-39
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