Indonesia: Prince Selarasa and his brothers pay respects to a holy man. Two pages from an llustrated manuscript of the Serat Selarasa, Java, 1804

The Serat Selarasa is perhaps the earliest finely-illustrated Javanese manuscript extant. The manuscript is dated 1804, and according to a note in the text was once owned by the wife of a Dutch East India Company official in Surabaya.

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