MS. Sansk. a. 13 (R)

MSS. Sansk. a.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Fragments, 12th-14th cent.?

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Palm-leaves, held together by a string passing through two holes at the sides.

Extent: 5

Dimensions (leaf): 54.6 × 4.76 cm.

Hand(s)

One Kuṭila, four Nepalese.

History

Origin: 12th-14th cent.?

one leaf—Kuṭila—is probably 12th century. The rest not later than the 14th.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1900 from Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1617, pp. 322-323

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. 1617, pp. 322-323

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries