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MYSORE, ANDRA PRADESH, CIRCA 1850
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A MANUSCRIPT ON CHESS DEVELOPED FROM THE GAME OF CADURANGA
MYSORE, ANDRA PRADESH, CIRCA 1850
Sanskrit in Telugu script, 151 pages, on paper watermarked "J Whatman Turkey Mill 1833", 24ll. to the page, written in red and black ink, within watercolour rule border, copiously illustrated with watercolour diagrams and board settings of deities and mythological and geometrical designs, a few pages with paste-down alterations, a few blank leaves, original cloth wrappers, with stamp of Rajah of Mysore
Folio 14 7/8 x 9½in. (37.8 x 24.2cm.)
MYSORE, ANDRA PRADESH, CIRCA 1850
Sanskrit in Telugu script, 151 pages, on paper watermarked "J Whatman Turkey Mill 1833", 24ll. to the page, written in red and black ink, within watercolour rule border, copiously illustrated with watercolour diagrams and board settings of deities and mythological and geometrical designs, a few pages with paste-down alterations, a few blank leaves, original cloth wrappers, with stamp of Rajah of Mysore
Folio 14 7/8 x 9½in. (37.8 x 24.2cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, 5 June 1996, lot 166 (part lot)
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