Details

Subjects:

Hindu women.
Hindu goddesses.
Hindu gods.
Animals.
Animals -- Art.
Hindu gods -- Art.
Hindu goddesses -- Art.
Hindu women -- Art.

Form/Genre:

Illuminations (painting)
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Art.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Picture book, containing drawings and miniature paintings of birds and animals, mythological beings, scenes of daily life (such as a woman breastfeeding a child), court scenes, and more. Many scenes of well-known Hindu iconography featuring gods and goddesses. Many of the pictures are unfinished, upside-down or overpainted, suggesting a work in progress or a sketchbook with notes.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 3 lines per leaf.
70 leaves foliated 1-70, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in white or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; borders marked with yellow line; paintings throughout often over painted with second drawing or painting, many unfinished.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 5479 (UP 2676).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2676.

OCLC:

972641755