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بسن پران.
Bisnu Purān.
Uniform title
Puranas.
Viṣṇupurāṇa.
Selections.
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/Created
[India, between 1800 and 1850?]
Description
1 online resource (136, 4 leaves) : paper, illustrations
Details
Subject(s)
Avatars (Religion)
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Hindu mythology
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Vishnu (Hindu deity)
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Former owner
Bourelier, Claude
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Bourelier, Françoise
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Vendor
Sam Fogg Rare Books & Manuscripts (Firm)
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Summary note
Copy of selections from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa translated into Persian. Eleven images including avatārs of Viṣṇu.
Notes
Binding: Papier-mâché́ covers painted and lacquered with a flowering tree within a polylobed arch on exteriors and doublures. Exterior cover trees are on a green background with yellow arch and orange frame; doublure trees are on an orange background with yellow arch and green frame. A piece of bright blue textile embroidered with white thread covers the spine.
Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in green, beige, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue. Rubrications in red. The first opening has two polychrome and gold miniatures and the text in cloudbands (f. 1v-2r). Nine other miniatures in bright, primary colors also appear (f. 4v, 31r, 34v, 42v, 48v, 63v, 77v, 96v, 126r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 15 long lines, border-ruled.
Origin: The copy is not dated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century, in India.
Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Location of originals
Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Françoise and Claude Bourelier.
Sold by Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts (London), 2016.
Cite as
UPenn Ms. Indic 6.
OCLC
988031660
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