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ANON. (Burmese Tattooist's Design Book)
Burma, Manuscript, 1830, Unique. Hard Cover, 31 x 12.5, unfolded 31 x 25 cm. 24 Pp. Drawings. Ill.: Self illustrated[Anon.]. Good/Very Good/No Jacket. [Possibly].ΒΆ Drawings in pencil and red ink, consisting of Nats, Magic squares, animals. Pencil & Red ink. Burmese men covered their whole bodies with intricate tattoos designed to ward off spiritual and physical dangers. Although nats and other earth spirits are shown, they are always given in connection with some mathematical formulae. The heavy emphasis is on the efficacy of numerical puzzles as guardians of the body and soul. The magic squares in which the same or closely related totals can be arrived at when proceeding in various directions, and by different procedures such as both addition and multiplication, were considered particularly powerful. This is a copybook for such designs, kept by a tattooist. The drawings are clear, precise and exotic. This type of book is called a "white Parabaik" a form used in Burma for drawing and illumination, only. Calligraphy having been usually written with white on black. Quigly and Tun, BM on Burmese books, P. 21. Folding into an album bound in tooled pigskin, drawings on both sides of the pages. Binding. Worn, scuffed, wormed. Text with almost no worming, light water stain, Good..
Offered for US$ 1025.00 by: Zita Books - Book number: 000440
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