A JAIN KALPASUTRA MANUSCRIPT Gujarat, Western India 15th century Ink with gouache and gold on paper, one hundred and forty-four folios, in horizontal format, each with seven lines of devanagari script on each side in black ink with red punctuation, 41 illustrations in gold, red and blue, mostly depicting Jina figures, some two to the page, each page with lozenge-shaped decorative gold medallions, each folio numbered 117 x 300mm (144) Provenance Spink and Son (before 1985) The Kalpasutra is one of the most important texts for Svetambara Jains describing the ritual and the life of Mahavira the 24th Tirthankara. It is often accompanied by the equally important non canonical Kalakacharyakatha (Story of Kalaka). For a similar manuscript from the same collection, sold in these rooms, see 7th November 2013, lot 221.