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100 attempt to show perspective. These palm leaf MSS were tied in between two wooden boards with a cord.
In case of paper, the early paper period MSS. were treated in the manner shown above, but in this case, the pictures were burnished from the front side only. The Ms. was also preserved between two painted book-covers and tied with a cord.
In the Sultanate period vertical format of MSS. was preferred and the illustrated books like the Laur-Chanda' 'Mirgavat etc. had the text on one page and the picture on the opposite pate. These books were nicely bound in leather binding with golden cartouches. There after, in the Mughal period from Akbar to Shah-Jahan, we have a number of illustrated MSS which are the marvels of painting and calligraphy. The AkbarNama of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Tuti-Nama' of the Cleveland Museum USA, and the Shah-Jahan-Name of windsor Castle library, London are a few examples of this art.
In Rajasthan, there was yet another tradition, of manuscripts. According to certain popular subjects the painters prepared manuscripts or series of paintings called formerent Chitravalis. There are large number of such subjects. The 1. Karl Khandalavala and Moti Chandra New Documents of Indian
Paintings (a reappraisal) Bombay 1969. 2. ibid 3. Pramod Chandra The Tuti-Nama of the Cleveland Museum of Art U.S.A
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Pramod
LV Graz Austria 1970 1987. p. 74.
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Shridhar Andhare. Chronology 1987. p. 74.
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