Manuscript featuring landscape with stupas, pagodas and clouds at left, text in different languages at right

Detail of Yongle Handscroll, “Delivering the Soul of Ming Taizu,” at Lingusi, Nanjing, with inscriptions in Chinese, Persian, Tay, Tibetan, and Mongolian

Location
China

Date
1407

Material
ink and color on silk

Dimensions
26 in. x 163 ft. (66 cm x 49.68 m)

Collection
Tibet Museum, Lhasa

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