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Waijayantaya
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Manuscripts--Sri Lanka--20th century
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Manuals (instructional materials)
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Idols and images--Buddhism
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Extent: 1 paper ; 33 x 21 cm.
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Title from spine title; alternate title Vaijayantaya supplied by cataloger.
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Written in 29 lines per leaf.
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318 leaves foliated [i-iv], 1-311, [i-iii], upper right recto.
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Dated 1906 (f. 311r).
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Mistakes blacked out; right vertical margin marked with single black line.
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Watermark of T. H. Saunders Fine.
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Bound as a codex in fabric board and leather.
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Manuscript is one volume of a two-volume set with Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2672.
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Formerly owned by and possibly copied by the early 20th century art historian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Manuscript was copied from another manuscript owned by Kirihami Muhandiri who lived in Embulpure, Harispatuwa in Sri Lanka (front folio iv recto). Sticker from bookbinder on back inside cover: The Col. Apoth. Co. Ltd., Printers and Bookbinders. Coomaraswamy wrote his name at the beginning...
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Gift of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to the University of Pennsylvania, before 1938.
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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