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Eleven Indian Miniatures

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Accession number: 
MS M.1035.1
Title: 
Eleven Indian Miniatures
Created: 
Gujarat, India, ca. 1475.
Credit: 
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1981.
Description: 
1 single leaf (9 lines) : paper, ill. ; 110 x 263 mm
Provenance: 
Paul F. Walter.
Notes: 

Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in Gujarat, ca. 1475.
"Kālakācāryakathānaka is a non-canonical Jain text usually added to the Kalpasūtra that recounts the story of a Jain monk-teacher named Kālaka"--Cf. Schmitz.
Pierpont Morgan MS M.1035.2 is from the same manuscript.
Miniature measures 110 x 76 mm.

Script: 
nāgarī
Language: 
Prakrit
Resources: 
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Century: 
15th century
Genres: 
Illuminated manuscripts
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Paper
Single leaves
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts