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292 Rare Antique Buddhist Music Sutra Manuscript – World Heritage Art!

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Set of 6 Buddhist Sutra Folios with unique Musical Notation

This set of handwritten panels contains Buddhist sutras or chants.

Accompanying the text is a language of visual musical notation now believed to be extinct. Skillfully handwritten using a brush to create thick and thin strokes at different points in the script.

Finely rendered.

Tiny inscriptions on the edges written perpendicular to the main text may be the signature of the writer or a reference to the content.

36cm x 9cm

18th century or Earlier

Likely from Tibet

Losses to edges, minor staining and damage

 

 

 

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This item has spent a lifetime being used for the purpose of its creation with the original artist/user. Signs of this life lived heartily may be present on the piece in the form of stains, thread loss, loose threads, holes, tears, color run and other imperfections. Therefore the condition must be assumed to be “not” perfect. More photos of such imperfections will be provided on request.

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