A COLLECTION OF SINHALESE VERSE AND PROSE TEXTS
FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY
Sri Lanka (Ceylon), late 19th - early 20th century

Sinhala manuscript in a number of hands on paper, 140ff., plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 16ll. of Sinhala script, with marbled endpaper, in ecru cloth binding with brown calf spine and edges, labelled The Col. Apoth. Co. Ltd., the folio 21cm x 16.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), a Ceylonese Tamil metaphysician, pioneering historian, ground-breaking theorist and philosopher of Indian art, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West; acquired by the present owner from the Newberry Library, Chicago, in 1995 and in the UK since.