Details
1478 x 558 x 5/8 in. (37.8 x 14.4. x 1.6 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired in France, 1991.
Literature
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24571.
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Lot Essay

Prajnaparamita, Vairochana, and Buddha Shakyamuni grace the cover of this early carved manuscript, likely from the thirteenth century. For another manuscript cover of a similar style dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century, see K. Selig Brown, Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 49, fig. 4.

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