- Some tiny scratches and rubbed spots.
- Some vague traces of former rolling.
- Some restorations (several sections have been reattached to each other); sl. worn along lower margin.
= "Pabuji ki phad is traditionally rendered on a red textile that bears the principal characters, the figures of Pabuji and Devanarayanji - a reincarnation of Vishnu. The bhopas would commission Chiteros (painters), members of the Chhipa caste, to create the phads to use in their performances. The phad used to be very large with the paintings of Pabuji being 13 arm-lengths long and Devnarayanjis being 30 feet long. They were painted using hand-woven coarse cotton cloth, which would be soaked overnight to thicken the threads. It was then starched with rice or wheat flour and then dried. The surface would be rubbed with moonstone for smoothening. The processing and painting both use only natural goods (...)" (https://mapacademy.io/article/pabuji-ki-phad/). Impressive tapestry, brimfull of diverse scenes showing i.a. a tiger hunt, several parades around the margins; numerous horseriding men etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- A few leaves (water)stained; library stamp of "Musée Tack Ypres Bibliothèque" on verso of final free endpaper (not traced) and w. catalogue clipping describing the work as "Manuscrit Turc" ["Turc" crossed out] and the contents as "poésies et contes, en turc". Spine-ends worn.
= The nice gouache shows a seated woman in a garden, playing the rebab (an Arabic bowed instrument).
- A few holes, creases and surface dam. spots.
- Vertical folds. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Some foxing/ soiling.
AND a small collection of 25 prints, all but a few chromolithogr. bookillustrations, all w. religious/ esoterical subject, all framed.
- One miniature badly wormholes (not affecting image).
- Fine copy.
- Trifle foxed.
- Chemise spine sl. discoloured. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- Vertical margins trimmed to the block. Otherwise fine.
= From the ehon Kishi enpu (Mr Aoi's Chronicle of Charm) (Osaka, ±1803).
- Red colour of the flower trifle bleeding. Otherwise fine.
- Doubled w. Japanese. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.