Details

Standardized Title:

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Aṣṭasāhasrikā. Selections.

Subjects:

Bodhisattvas -- Art.
Bodhisattvas.
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism -- Early works to 1800.
Mahayana Buddhism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Mahayana Buddhism -- Doctrines.
Bodhisattvas -- Art -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Treatises.
Illuminated manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Early manuscript leaf from Nepal, with a short section taken from a teaching (sūtra) on Mahāyāna Buddhist wisdom. There are three painted images: a larger, central figure, possibly the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, with two attendants on either side. These images are painted over the original script and so are later than the text.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Dated 1200-1399 based on previous appraisal.
Corrected text in margins; vertical borders indicated with triple black line surrounding three paintings.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by George P. Bickford (Cleveland, Ohio).
Formerly owned by Ken Robbins (Potomac, Maryland).
Gift of Ken Robbins, 2015.

Cited in:

Included, with images, in Czuma, Stanislaw. Indian art from the George P. Bickford Collection : catalogue (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975), no. 130.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 16.

Contributor:

Bickford, George P., former owner.
Robbins, Kenneth X., former owner.

OCLC:

946660708