A composite paper manuscript containing fourteen Nāṭakas, written probably by the same hand and bound contemporarily.
MS. Sansk. d. 88
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A composite paper manuscript containing fourteen Nāṭakas, written probably by the same hand and bound contemporarily.
Shelfmark
MS. Sansk. d. 88
Language
Prakrit languages
Sanskrit
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper.
Hands
Śaradā in black ink. Scribe: Rājānalasaka Rājānalasaka, who gives his name in the colophons of no. 3, 7, 9, and 11. With the exception of no. 2, and probably no. 14, the other Nāṭakas are clearly written by the same hand.
Binding
Contemporary soft leather binding in stamped red leather, with a Persian-style flap and a textileribbon. Unidentified Persian additions in black ink on the front board. Bodleian Library shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.
Repairs in darker red leather. In unstable condition.
Acquisition
Bought in 1887 from Eugen Hultzsch.
Provenance
Former owner's shelfmark: Nos. 9, 102, 108, 105, 94, 101, 109, 98, 107, 106, 91, 110, 97, 103 written in red ink on the original wrapper, now inset on f. 1r. Memorandum Śrīnagar, K. No.1–14. written in pencil on the original wrapper, now inset on f. 1r.
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Connections
People associated with this object
- Unknown author
- Dāmodara Miśra
- Murāri
- Eugen Hultzsch
- Bhavabhūti
- Kṛṣṇamiśrācārya
- Mṛgarājalakṣman Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa
- Ānandadeva ,the son of Āpadeva.
- Harṣa
- Rājaśekhara
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Rūpagosvāmī, active 16th century
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Kālidāsa
