Two illustrated folios from Jain manuscripts, North West India, circa 16th century, the first possibly an account of the life of the Jain monk Kalakacharya, with opaque pigments, gold and ink on paper, the horizontal folio with 7ll. of large black devanagari script, various lines in smaller script around, with three almond-shaped gold medallions, the illustration with a deity riding an elephant, in red frame, mounted, framed and glazed; the second an illustrated folio in black ink on red ground,
Two illustrated folios from Jain manuscripts, North West India, circa 16th century, the first possibly an account of the life of the Jain monk Kalakacharya, with opaque pigments, gold and ink on paper, the horizontal folio with 7ll. of large black devanagari script, various lines in smaller script around, with three almond-shaped gold medallions, the illustration with a deity riding an elephant, in red frame, mounted, framed and glazed; the second an illustrated folio in black ink on red ground,
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