Accession number
MS M.211
Object title
Rāgamālā (MS M.211).
Display Date
ca. 1800.
Created
Indian, probably Jaipur, ca. 1800.
Binding
Apple green silk; the doublures and their facing flyleaves are covered with light blue satin cloth; verso of first flyleaf has stamped on it the name of the English bookbinders Clarke and Bedford and the bookplates of Burnham Abbey (James Toovey) and the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1899.
Description
36 leaves : paper, ill. ; 192 x 125 mm
Provenance
Archibald Acheson, 3rd Lord Gosford; his library purchased by James Toovey in 1878; inherited by Charles James Toovey; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Toovey June 2, 1899; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in India, probably in Jaipur, ca. 1800.
Decoration: 36 miniatures mounted on card; the versos are blank.
All miniatures are mounted on cards which measure 295 x 220 mm.
Decoration: 36 miniatures mounted on card; the versos are blank.
All miniatures are mounted on cards which measure 295 x 220 mm.
Script
devanāgarī
Language
Braj Bhāṣā, a western dialect of Hindi
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