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Accession number:
MS M.1061
Title:
[The wrestler's arena at Mathurā, a folio from a Bhāgavata Purāṇa].
Created:
Northern India, ca. 1550.
Credit:
Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds, 1978.
Description:
1 single leaf (10 lines) : paper, ill. ; 175 x 232 mm
Provenance:
Marilyn Walter Grounds.
Notes:
Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in northern India, ca. 1550.
The text in nāgarī script on the verso identifies the scene--Cf. Schmitz.
One of two leaves from this Bhāgavata Purāṇa that is held in the Pierpont Morgan Library; the other leaf is identified as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.990.
The text in nāgarī script on the verso identifies the scene--Cf. Schmitz.
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