Bhagavadgita

Accession number: 
MS G.70
Title: 
Bhagavadgita
Created: 
Kashmir, India, second half of 18th cent.
Binding: 
20th-century silk textile striped in red, yellow, and green, with floral designs, over cardboard.
Credit: 
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description: 
398 leaves (6 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 95 x 153 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by Henry S. Glazier in Calcutta in 1933 and given to his brother William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York, in the same year; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes: 

Ms. written and illuminated in India, probably Kashmir, second half of the 18th century.
Decoration: 22 miniatures, with frames.

Script: 
devanāgarī
Language: 
Sanskrit
Century: 
Classification: