A paper manuscript of Kālidāsa’s Abhijñānaśakuntala, with an interlinear Latin translation, complete English translation, and various notes by William Jones . — 1788 CE.
MS. Sansk. c. 37
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A paper manuscript of Kālidāsa’s Abhijñānaśakuntala, with an interlinear Latin translation, complete English translation, and various notes by William Jones . — 1788 CE.
Shelfmark
MS. Sansk. c. 37
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Latin
English
Sanskrit
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. Three different watermarks: Posthorn, in crowned shield; below monogram GR and a bell; Monogram, WJ; and Figure of a woman, sitting on a chariot, holding a three-petalled flower in her right hand and a spear in her left, within three concentric ovals surmounted by a crown..
Physical extent
ix + 167 + xxi
Hands
Devanāgarī in black ink. Adhyāya headings and daṇḍas in red ink. Scribe: As the Sanskrit text is written in the same beautiful handwriting as the texts in MSS. Sansk. c. 32 and c. 34, it must have been written by the same Lālā Mahatābarāya .
William Jones ' handwriting in black ink.
Binding
A late 18th or early 19th-century brown leatherbinding over pasteboard, with shelfmark number tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.
Acquisition
Given in 1833 by Julius Hare and Augustus Hare from William Jones'personal library.
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Connections
People associated with this object
- Augustus Hare
- Julius Hare
- Lālā Mahatābarāya .
- William Jones'
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Kālidāsa
