Book Cover
late 19th century (made)
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Cover for a Jain manuscript embroidered with gold thread and sequins
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Red satin, embroidered with gold thread and sequins |
| Brief description | Cover for Jain manuscript, Gujarat, late 19th century. |
| Physical description | Cover for a Jain manuscript embroidered with gold thread and sequins |
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| Gallery label | MANUSCRIPT COVERS
ABOVE: [text relating to IS.50-1983]
BELOW: MANUSCRIPT COVER SHOWING THE FOURTEEN DREAMS OF TRISHALA
Silk embroidered with gold-wrapped thread and sequins
Gujarat, late 19th century
IS.20-1978
Some Jain manuscripts were themselves worshipped as sacred objects and often had elaborately decorated covers.The earliest manuscripts were written on palm leaves, tied into bundles with cords, and had long wooden painted cover boards. After about 1350 illustrated manuscripts began to be written on paper butstill had painted covers. Ornate textile covers were also in use by the seventeenth century. This nineteenth-century example folds round at the back, where it is decorated with eight auspicious signs.(14/05/2010) |
| Credit line | Given by Mr. John C. Irwin, 1978. |
| Object history | The scroll was originally collected by W.G. Archer. The Museum received the scroll as a gift from John C. Irwin in 1978. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Indian embroidery / Rosemary Crill ; photography by Richard Davis. London: V&A Publications, 1999 Number: 185177310X, 1851772944 (pbk.)
p.68, cat. no. 59 |
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| Accession number | IS.20-1978 |
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| Record created | October 16, 2002 |
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