Details

Subjects:

Love poetry, Indic.
Hindu mythology.

Form/Genre:

Illuminations (visual materials)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Rajasthani.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Hindi (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Love story in old Hindi verse. Illuminated with gouache paintings, primarily of couples, surrounded with red and yellow borders. From Rajasthan.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 54v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
54 leaves foliated 1-38, 40-49, 49-54, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti mṛgale khārīscopaī saṃpurṇī (f. 54r).
Dated saṃvat 1851 or 1871 (1794 or 1814), both dates are given (f. 54v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned and donated to Penn Libraries by Haramanuts (?), according to wrapper note.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 6114 (UP 1188).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1188

OCLC:

904017516