id: 539040 accession number: 1938.301.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.301.b updated: 2024-04-03 11:07:42.264000 Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Vairochana with attendants, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi, 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.b title: Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Vairochana with attendants, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi, Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra) title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Covers overall: 6.5 x 57 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 22 7/16 x 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1938 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1938– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. url: 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. url: 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. url: Pal, Pratapaditya. The Arts of Nepal, Part II: Painting. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 32, reproduced: fig. 11. url: 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. url: 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. url: 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. url: 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. url: 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: Figures 11, 12, and 15, p. 9 and 14. url: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.b/1938.301.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.b/1938.301.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.b/1938.301.b_full.tif