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Kamasutra persa.
LIBRA HQ470.S3 V3165 2011 1 v. facs. + 1 v. commentary
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Spanish
- Urdu
- Subjects (All):
- Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra--Illustrations.
- Vātsyāyana.
- Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic--India--Rajasthan.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic.
- Miniature painting, Indic--India--Rajasthan.
- Miniature painting, Indic.
- Sex--Early works to 1800.
- Sex.
- Sex instruction--India--Early works to 1800.
- Sex instruction.
- Sex customs--India--Early works to 1800.
- Sex customs.
- Erotic literature.
- Erotic art--India.
- Erotic art.
- Erotica.
- Kāmasūtra (Vātsyāyana).
- India.
- India--Rajasthan.
- Medical Subjects:
- Erotica.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- [120] pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 commentary (152 pages ; 25 cm)
- Other Title:
- Commentrary volume has title: Kama Sutra persa
- Place of Publication:
- Sant Just Desvern [Spain] : The Facsimile Codex, [2011]
- Notes:
- Title from colophon label in facsimile volume, notarial certification dated 2011.
- Full-color facsimile of a privately owned manuscript codex consisting of 119 illuminated miniatures, produced roughly between 1700 and 1850 in Rajasthan, northern India, and collected from India, Kashmir, and Persia. The miniatures were inspired by the Kama Sutra, but were painted on miscellaneous leaves of existing unrelated manuscripts. No part of the text of the Kama Sutra appears in the manuscript facsimile. Some of the manuscript leaves contain texts of love poetry in Urdu by Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810). See pages 14-15 in commentary volume.
- Publication information from commentary volume, with "depósito legal" dated 2011.
- Facsimile issued in an edition of 600 copies numbered in Arabic numerals and 100 copies with Roman numerals.
- Persian-style binding of facsimile is goatskin on wood panels, sewn with hemp thread. Facsimile and commentary in clamshell box.
- "Manuscrito 17 de la colección de manuscritos iluminados Miguel Huguet Viñas"--Colophon label.
- Commentary volume: El Kama Sutra Persa / editor, Miquel Huguet Viñas ; autores, Javier Hernández Díaz, Dane Kennedy, Mallanaga Vatsyayana.
- Commentary volume in Spanish includes a Spanish version of Kama Sutra text (pages 43-150), without indication of the source language.
- Includes bibliographical references in commentary volume (pages 41-42).
- Local Notes:
- Library's copy is no. 179.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Contains:
- Vātsyāyana. Kāmasūtra. Spanish
- ISBN:
- 9788493919801
- 8493919802
- OCLC:
- 944394007
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