Manuscript cover

16th or 17th century

Object PlaceIndia

Medium/TechniqueCotton plain-weave gauze ground embroidered with silk; mounted on cardboard

DimensionsOverall: 12.9 x 30.2cm (5 1/16 x 11 7/8in.)

Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection

Accession number17.2306

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ClassificationsTextiles

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Provenance1913, purchased from the library of Puj Kripa Rishi, a Jaina priest, Patti, Panjab by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)