- Burmese Tattooist's Design Book
NP, NPub. 1820, Unique. Hard Cover, 31 x 12.5 cm. folding Album, 24 Pp. Ill.: The Author. About Very Good/No Jacket.¶ Folding into an album bound in tooled pigskin, drawings on one side of the pages. This album is filled with extremely complex fields of magic squares and of hierarchical arrangements using doves as parts of magic crosses, and nagas in similar designs, as well as one double page consisting of magical arithmetical arrangements symmetrically surrounding a figure of a female goddess with a bowl of flowers as offerings below. The goddess and the bowl are also worked into the mathematical puzzle. The whole is surrounded by an architectural setting. This entire book is drawn in white ink on black sheets, the earlier form of Burmese calligraphy used before 1820. Calligraphy having been usually written with white on black.~ See Quigly and Tun, BM on Burmese books, P. 21. Worm damage, primarily to the covers, the images are untouched. Occasional magic squares are entered into, but the numbers are still legible and the design apparent..
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