Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
No. 14: [The attitudes of Buddha against disease or other misfortune], 1600
Item — Box: 1, Item: 14
Scope and Contents
Accompanying handwritten note on paper reads: "An important series of drawings made on the prepared leaves of the Talipot Palm. The calligraphy is good and constitutes a charm (based on the 'attitudes' of Buddha) against disease or other misfortunes. Ca. 1600 A.D. Rather rare. 'Dr. Casey Wood, Suisse Hotel, Kandy, (Ceylon)' [text in quotation marks is stamped]."A modern tag with Sinhalese characters also accompanies the manuscript.See ola no. 12 for another text...
Dates:
1600