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Accession number:
MS M.990
Title:
[The court of Jarāsandha and the departure of his army for Mathurā, a folio from a Bhāgavata Purāṇa].
Created:
Northern India, ca. 1550.
Credit:
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1978.
Description:
1 single leaf (4 lines) : paper, ill. ; 175 x 230 mm
Provenance:
Paul F. Walter.
Notes:
Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in northern India, ca. 1550.
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.1061.
The inscription in nāgarī on the left, lower border is fragmentary and only the word mathurako can be read; the word hirabāi on the right is in a different hand; a four line description of the miniature is on the verso--Cf. Schmitz.
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