{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Nepal." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought by Dr. D. Wright in 1873-6." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "2 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "14th-15th century." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Add.1680.2.1" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Wright, Daniel" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Bauddha; Avadāna, Jātaka" }, { "label": "Filiations", "value": "
This manuscript belongs to a different line of transmission than CUL Add.1611<\/a>, on which the text edited by Speyer is based (Add.1680.2 \"is the only source independent from B\" (Demoto 2006: 208); see also Speyer 1902: CIII-CVII: \"the Avadānaśataka text rests on one MS, the Cambridge Add.1611 [...] The other three MSS I have collated, CDP have been copied from it \".) <\/p><\/div><\/div>"
},
{
"label": "Format",
"value": "Tālapatra"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "Bendall (1883: 168), Speyer (1902: CVI-CVII), direct inspection."
},
{
"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Sanskrit."
},
{
"label": "Author(s)",
"value": "\u200fUnknown."
},
{
"label": "Alternative Title(s)",
"value": "Śatakāvadāna"
},
{
"label": "Binding",
"value": " Cardboard box, library binding.<\/p> The manuscript is kept in a cardboard box together with other palm-leaf fragmentary manuscripts (see Bendall 1883: 167-71); each single fragment or bundle of fragments is wrapped in a paper sheet with the classmark written in pencil.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Condition",
"value": "Incomplete, worm-eaten and with frayed margins."
},
{
"label": "Script",
"value": " The Avadānaśataka<\/i> is an ancient collection of Buddhist legends, its first redaction dating to the first centuries of the CE. It was translated into Chinese and Tibetan during the first millennium CE, gaining large popularity across Asia. This Nepalese incomplete palm-leaf manuscript contains the beginning of the Dharmapālāvadāna<\/i>, the thirty-third story in the collection. These two folios are part of a bundle of nine folios possibly from four different manuscripts, containing parts of five stories from the Avadānaśataka<\/i>. They were used by Speyer for his edition of the Avadānaśataka<\/i> and were given the siglum F. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Avadānaśataka"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Camillo Formigatti"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Palm leaf (Corypha; since the leaves are damaged and taper off at the left and right sides, the width refers to the leaf at its widest). Folio height: ca 5 cm, width: ca 32 cm. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": " 5-6 lines per page, approximately 63 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> One string hole approximately in the center of a square space. The manuscript is very carefully written, the lines and the written area are very regular, even without marginal frame lines and without ruling.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Date of Acquisition",
"value": "December 1875 (ULIB 7/3/55)."
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": " 1. Original: Nepālākṣarā numerals, mid-right margin, verso.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p> Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>