MS. Ouseley 414
MSS. Ouseley
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Pictures with Descriptions, 18th cent.?
Contents
Summary of Contents: Pictures of natural objects, the earth, the sun, trees (two), bird, cat, men (two, the latter matta), girl, man, two women, Kṛṣna, Garuḍa, Rāma, Gaṅgādevī, a headless woman, and Jagannātha, each described in very bad Sanskrit on the verso
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: written on thin strips of some very strong kind of leaf.
Extent: 17
Dimensions (leaf): 11.4 × 5.4 cm.
Hand(s)
Bengālī.
History
Origin: 18th cent.?
perhaps the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collection of Sir Gore Ouseley was purchased by the Bodleian in 1858.
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1615, p. 322
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. 1615, p. 322
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