Details

Subjects:

Horoscopes.
Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Horoscopes -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Scrolls (information artifacts)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Notes:

Sanskrit in black and red Devanagari script, yellow margins on either side of text filled with floral decoration.
Ink and gouache on paper, 29 illustrations of gods, cosmic beings, planets and zodiacal signs.
Saṃvat 1827.
Non-Latin script record.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), the catalog Dreams, devotion and romance : illustrated manuscripts from India (2010).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 3

OCLC:

654108047

Web link:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page

The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page