A miniature copy of the Bhagavat-Gita devotional text, featuring the ten Avatars of Vishnu with special emphasis on the life of Krishna, North India, probably Kashmir, 19th century, Sanskrit in Devanagari script, 222ff., plus six fly leaves, each folio with 5ll. of black script arranged between yellow and red rules, some phrases picked out in red, numerous illustrations , in modern black binding, folio 5.5 x 7.7cm. Provenance: Private UK CollectionThe Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of book 6 of the Mahabharata called the Bhishma Parva), dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE and is typical of the Hindu synthesis. It is considered to be one of the holy scriptures for Hinduism.Please refer to department for condition report