Accession number:
MS G.68
Title:
Mahāparinirvāna sutra
Created:
China, 618-906.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
1 roll : paper.
Provenance:
Purchased in April 1960 for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York, from Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, Calif.; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. written in China in the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.).
Ch. 2 of the Mahāparinirvāna sutra.
Found in the Tun-huang Caves (Caves of the Thousand Buddhas), Qianfodong, near Dunhuang, China.
Continuous roll of 16 sheets (28 lines per sheet, 17 or 18 characters per line); 270 x 7302 mm.
Roll has crystal knobs at end; in 20th-century blue Japanese wrapper and box.
Script:
regular Sutra style.
Language:
Chinese;
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