Early 19th century Indian sketchbook of arms, standards, and temples.
Description
- Language(s)
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Sanskrit ; English ; Persian
- Published
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[India] : [creator not identified, [approximately 1800]
- Note
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Clearly written manuscript of the late Mughal period, beautifully illustrated with watercoour miniatures, many heightened with gold of weapons, flags, images and plans of Jaina and Savruka temples. The section on weapons has 23 pictures of single weapons, with their names in Sanskrit and Persian with Romanized transliteration below. Each is interleaved with a smaller leaf describing the weapon in English on the recto and in Persian (Arabic script) on the verso; each is followed by a full page sketch of a person holding the weapon. The section on flags or standards contains 9 full colour illustrations of the standards of Mughal rulers with their bearers mounted on richly caparisoned elephants; each is identified on the verso in Sanskrit and English, and they are followed by five pages describing them in English. The Mughal rulers identified have standards with insignia of fish (4), a golden stripe, the sun and moon, lion, hand (2), and five colours, The last part has 24 cross-legged images followed by temples, showing their layouts and numbered 25 to 33, of which numbers 30 and 33 are very large, carefully folded.
Some misspellings and grammatical errors.
No title page; title devised by cataloguer.
- Physical Description
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65 leaves (some folded) of watercolour drawings with accompanying text :
chiefly illustrations ;
220 mm., 250 mm., 230 mm. (4to)
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