Copper Plate Document

by India

$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

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An inscribed copper plate of Indian origin, possibly Bengal or Assam, engraved in a Bengali or Bengali-Assamese script and preserving a formal documentary text in metal. This copper plate belongs to the South Asian tradition of preserving legal, devotional, and administrative records on durable metal supports. Copper plate documents, often described as tamrapatra or copper charters, were used for grants, endowments, title rights, decrees, and other formal acts, their material

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