NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY MEWAR, CIRCA 1740

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VINOD-LINA
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY MEWAR, CIRCA 1740
Romance based on historical characters, Hindi manuscript (in Braj Bhasha) on buff paper, 49ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each with up to 21ll. of black and red script, with 79 miniatures in gouache within yellow margins throughout, areas of staining and marginal repair, two pages stuck together
Folio 9 7/8 x 8½in. (25.1 x 21.6); Text approximately 8¾ x 7 3/8in. (22.2 x 18.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Braj Bhasha is the literary dialect of Hindi which was the principal vehicle for much of the literature of a large tract of Northern India between the 16th and 19th centuries. This is a narrative text which tells the story of Vinod, a prince born in exile. The text is mostly composed in couplets (dohra/doha and its inverted variant sortha), and quatrains (caupai).

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