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accession number: 1938.301.a
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Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra), Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina). Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Paintings: Nepal, Kathmandu. Covers: Gum tempera, colors, and paper on wood; pages: gum tempera and ink on palm leaves; covers overall: 6.5 x 57 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 22 7/16 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.a
title: Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
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creation date: Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)
creation date earliest: 1119
creation date latest: 1119
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Paintings: Nepal, Kathmandu
technique: Covers: Gum tempera, colors, and paper on wood; pages: gum tempera and ink on palm leaves
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art - Medieval
type: Painting
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measurements: Covers overall: 6.5 x 57 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 22 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1938
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Kramrisch, Stella. The Art of Nepal. New York: The Asia Society/Abrams, 1964.
page number: Reproduced: Figure 77, p. 103; mentioned: cat. no. 77a and 77b, pp. 43 and 144.
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Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1994. 5th edition.
page number: Reproduced: color plate 10, p. 202; mentioned: p.134.
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Hickmann, Regina, Heinz Mode, and Siegfried Mahn. Miniaturen, Volks- und Gegenwartskunst Indiens. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann Buch und Kunstverlag, 1975.
page number: Reproduced: Figure 1; mentioned: p.14.
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Meahl, Katherine. 2004. “Influence néware dans la peinture tibétaine entre le XIe et le XIVe siècle.” Dossiers d’Archéologie 293 (2004): 86–91.
page number: Reproduced: 87; mentioned: p. 86.
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Kim, Jinah. Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting. Oakland, University of California Press, 2021.
page number: Reproduced: Figure 2.3, p. 66; Mentioned: pp. 64-65.
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Hollis, Howard. "A Nepalese Manuscript." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 3 (1939): 31-33.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 31–33.
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137997
Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 24, p. 24; Reproduced: cat. no. 24, p. 47.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 754.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 233.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n257
Marcus, Margaret F. “Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 8 (1967): pp. 240–262.
page number: Mentioned: p. 253, fig. 11; Reproduced: p. 252.
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152173
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 233.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n257
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 296.
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n316
Kim, Jinah. "Painted Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia." Archives of Asian Art 65, no. 1 & 2 (2015).
page number: Mentioned: pp. 57-86; Reproduced: p. 62, fig.5; p. 63, fig. 6 & 7.
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O’Mara, Reed. “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon.” Religions 11, no. 274 (2020): 1-19.
page number: Reproduced: Figure 16, p. 15. Mentioned: pp. 14-15.
url: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274
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