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Manuscripts from the Himalayas and the Indian Subcontinent were produced literally in hundreds of languages and scripts, on a wide range of materials: from modest palm-leaf books to grand volumes published on paper produced for the Mughal Emperors.
Among the many items included in this catalogue is a complete Tibetan scroll of the early 8th century from the Dun Huang, a Devimahatmya of the eleventh century, perhaps the oldest copy of this celebrated text to survive, and an artist's pattern book with designs for sculpture from Nepal dated 1555. Among the Sanskrit manuscripts are a group of fragments of Buddhist texts dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. and a lage group of Tantric and Yoga texts. There are a number of palm-leaf manuscripts including Bhagavata Purana from Orissa with 60 drawings and an elabroately decorated Lives of the Buddha from Sri Lanka made from moer than 1000 leaves. Among the Islamic manuscripts is a page from an Imperial copy of the Baburnama, and an encyclopedia of the wonders of nature from the Deccan with nore than 300 illustrations.
Remembering Forward presents works by nine of the most prominent Australian Aboriginal artists: Paddy Bedford, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Queenie McKenzie, Dorothy Napangardi, Rover Thomas, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula. More
In the winter of 1586, Hakob Jughayets'i, one of Armenia's most celebrated illuminators, completed work on a Gospel Book with an extensive and extraordinary programme of narrative miniatures and marginal figures. More
Illuminator, painter, scribe, clerk, teacher, doctor of theology, restorer and binder, Mesrop was one of the greatest Armenian artists of his and following generations. He was prolific, working for at least forty-two years in Sos (New Julfa) from 1608 to 1651. This book will be the first serious study of the forty-six of his manuscripts that have survived. The focus of the book, however, is The Four Gospels, one of the few manuscripts painted entirely by Mesrop’s hand and one of the most extensively illuminated in his oeuvre. More
Twenty-five years after Captain Cook, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry, but unwittingly, they became agents for the preservation of Polynesian culture through their diligent recording of language and religious practices. They even preserved a number of religious artifacts, which they sent back to England for exhibition in the Mission Museum in London. This book focuses on these artifacts, the idols that avoided the flames. More
Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered. More