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 25 Dec 2015 Rare Paintings
Felicitation of the Virgin and Child
Kesu Khurd (India, active circa 1580-1600)
Mughal empire, circa 1600
Drawing

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 25 Dec 2015 Sculpture
Christ the Good Shepherd
India, Goa, 17th century
Sculpture
Ivory

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 25 Dec 2015 Rare Paintings
Composition with the Virgin Mary
India, Karnataka, Bijapur (?), circa 1675
Watercolor
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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 3 Jun 2015 Article/Essay
Article:
Why Muslims and Christians are safer in India than most places on earth
By Minhaz Merchant
daily O - 2nd June 2015

Our country, the birthplace of nearly half the world's nine major religions, has long been a haven for the other half.

When the Narendra Modi government took office last M... Read More
 4 Apr 2015 Rare Paintings
Virgin Mary and child with Christian priest and attendant.

Painting. Devotion.
On paper.
1610 (circa)

Mughal, India

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 4 Apr 2015 Rare Paintings
Virgin and Child - 1605 AD

Single-page drawing after an engraving by the Flemish artist Bernard van Orley (1492-1542). Dedication to Shah Salim Jahangir before his accession to the imperial throne in 1605 and artist's signature at lower left above figure's knee. Void background. Inscribed.
Ink, ... Read More
 4 Apr 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The BIBLE
Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke
Printed by Robert Barker, London - 1606

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 14 Mar 2015 Rare Paintings
Madonna and child, cat, opaque watercolour on paper, Hyderabad, late 18th century.

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Madonna and child, with cat, seated on a balcony. A Gothic chapel to the rear.

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 13 Mar 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jesuit missionaries in northern India and inscriptions on their tombs, Agra (1580-1803)
by H.Hosten
Published in Calcutta - 1907

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Excerpt:
In 1600, Fr. Francis Corsi was sent to Lahore to help... Read More
 13 Mar 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The History of Christianity in India : From the commencement of the Christian era
By James Hough
Published by Seeley, Burnside and Seeley, London - 1845

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 13 Mar 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Early Roman Catholic Missions To India: With sketches of Jesuitism, Hindu philosophy, and the Christianity of the ancient Indo-Syrian Church of Malabar
By James Forbes Bisset Tinling
Published by S.W.Partridge & Co., Bristol - 1871

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 13 Mar 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: Otherwise Called the Syrian Christians
By William Joseph Richards
Published by Bemrose & Sons Ltd., London - 1908

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Oath of the Coonen Cross
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 13 Mar 2015 Rare Paintings
A procession celebrating the Feast of the Assumption, statues of the Blessed Virgin carried by bearers through streets
Pondicherry, mid-19th Century

Watercolour on paper

French inscription:
Fete chretienne d'asiancoupon [?], procession de la vierge, giroles entoures de fleurs at bottom with th... Read More
 31 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross - A view of the religious history of India during the Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, and Christian periods.
By Rev. James Vaughan
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1876


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 21 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Gospel in South India or, The religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians
By Rev. Samuel Mateer
Published by Religious Tract Society, London - 1880

Rev. Samuel Mateer was the first missionary who endeavored for the growth of an indigenous Church... Read More
 24 Mar 2013 Rare Paintings
A Bishop and a teacher from the Malabar Coast, India. Watercolour drawing.

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 17 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
St. Thomas, the Apostle, in India
An investigation based on the latest researches in connection with the time-honoured tradition regarding the martyrdom of St. Thomas in southern India.
By F.A. D'Cruz
Printed by Hoe & Co., Madras - 1922

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 17 Feb 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The First Hindoo Convert: A Memoir of Krishna Pal, a Preacher of the Gospel to his countrymen more than twenty years.
Published by The American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia - 1852


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 5 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Essay:
The Synthesis of European and Mughal Art in the Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami
By Gregory Minissale
October 13, 2000

The European engravings brought to India in the sixteenth century by the Jesuits to help communicate Christian doctrines to the Mughals are well documented. Prints of no... Read More
 5 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Susanna and the Elders, folio from the Gulshan Album (Rose Garden album)
ca. 1595

Mughal dynasty
Reign of Jahangir
Oil on paper (image); opaque watercolor and gold on paper (borders)
H: 24.7 W: 13.4 cm
India

This folio is a striking demonstration of Mughal artistic creativity and experimenta... Read More