Illustrated manuscript of a Kāmaśāstra text.

Description

Illustrated manuscript of a Kāmaśāstra text. Obl. leporello, 10 x 19,5 cm: 19 ff. comprising 26 pp. of c. 10 lines of text per page, black ink, 19 full-page paintings, black ink and gouache, yellowed paper (some sm. stains, tears to a few folds, some with old repairs). - An unusual erotic manuscript ill. with a series of 19 paintings depicting the same nude couple in a variety of sexual positions, set against carpets and draperies whose colours and decorative patterns vary from scene to scene.