Majmūʻah-ʼi Bhagat Māl.
- Holding institution:
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Majmūʻah-ʼi Bhagat Māl.
- Creator:
- Nābhādāsa, active 1585
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts - Date:
- between 1832 and 1846
- Description:
- Collection of various prose, poetry, and hymns related to Krishna and Ganesha. A section of the Bhagat Māl (f. 1r-21v), followed by an incomplete prose account of Krishna's visit to the house of a rāja in Persian (f. 24v-51v) and finishing with a set of Hymns to Krishna and Ganesha (54r-127v). The collection is chiefly in Hindustani written in Perso-Arabic script, with about 20 leaves in Persian.
- Language:
- Indic languages
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Miniatures (paintings)
Poems
Hindu saints
Hindu literature
Hindu hymns - Geographic region:
- India?
- Provenance:
- Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.Purchased in "Benares India, Dec 1905" (note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso).Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926, lot 579 (catalog cutting pasted across the back inside cover and last flyleaf verso).Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
- Extent:
- Several different layouts: f. 1r-7v in 16 long lines; f. 8v-21v in 16-18 lines with 6 lines in three sets of two inset on each page; f. 24v-51v in 13 long lines; f. 54r-67v, 76r-119v, and 124r-127v laid out in landscape, with the text running parallel to the gutter, generally with two lines inset at the head of the page, then 7 lines in two columns; f. 69r-75v, 8 lines in two columns written diagonally; f. 77r-79v written in 12 lines divided into three groups of four lines each; f. 119r-123v, also in landscape, written as blocks of prose, 9 lines to a page.
- Publisher:
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Rights:
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- Lewis O 100
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World