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TULSI DAS (1532-1623 AD): RAMCHARITMANAS

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£ 30 240
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27.04.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 100 | TULSI DAS (1532-1623 AD): RAMCHARITMANAS
TULSI DAS (1532-1623 AD): RAMCHARITMANAS

NORTH INDIA, POSSIBLY DELHI, SAMVAT 1887-93/1830-36 AD

Poetry, Awadhi and Urdu manuscript on paper, 274ff. and 2 fly-leaves, each with 24ll. black devanagari and nasta'liq in one column each, important phrases and key words in red, text between double red intercolumnar rules and red and black outer rules, 51 finely painted illustrations, with occasional marginal notes and numbering, five dated colophons, in later red leather binding with inset lacquered 19th century boards, the front depicting Razia Begum and the reverse Iltamush with a line of gold nasta'liq above and below and surrounded by floral gold cartouches containing Persian poetry, doublures showing a stylised cypress tree, with later velvet-lined box

Text panel 12 x 6 1/4in. (30.5 x 16cm.); folio 14 3/4 x 9 1/4in. (37.5 x 23.5cm.); lacquered boards 11 x 6 3/4in. (28 x 17cm.)





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