Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge : with introductory notices and illustrations of the palæography and chronology of Nepal and Bengal / by Cecil Bendall.

  • Cambridge University Library.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge : with introductory notices and illustrations of the palæography and chronology of Nepal and Bengal / by Cecil Bendall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF PLATES. AUTOTYPES. I. 1. Transitional Gupta character of the vm—ixth century. MS. Add. 1702, leaf numbered 19, showing both hands. See Excursus, p. xlii. I. 2. Transitional Gupta. MS. Add. 1049. See p. xl. The lower leaf shows date [Crlbarsha-] Samvat 252 (a. d. 857). I. 3. Early Devanagarl and Kutila hand. MS. Add. 866. Recto of last leaf showing date N.S. 128 (a. d. 1008) and kings’ names. II. 1. Kutila writing of Bengal, xith century. MS. Add. 1464, leaf 128. II. 2. Kutila as modified in the xnth century. MS. Add. 1693, recto of last leaf, showing date N. S. 285 (a. d. 1165) and kings’ names. II. 3. Early Nepalese hooked writing. MS. Add. 1686, leaf 58, showing date, N. S. 286 (a. d. 1165). II. 4. Early Bengali hand. Add. 1699. 1 (a.d. 1198), leaf 5, showing table of initial vowels. III. 1. Nepalese hand of the xnth century. Add. 1691. 2, leaf 22, showing list'of initial vowels. III. 2. Nepalese hooked writing of the middle period. MS. Add. 1395 (a. d. 1385), leaf 113. III. 3. Archaistic Nepalese hand of the xvith century, and brass work of the same period. MS. Add. 1556 (a.d. 1583), written in white letters on black paper, leaf 11. LITHOGRAPHS. IY. Table of Selected Letters. Y. Table of Numerals, expressed in the old system of letters or aksharas, and in the newer system of figures.