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New Delhi: The manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra are among the 74 new documentary heritage collections that have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

Even the tiniest details were revealing. The use of red and blue inks in the decorated initials and a few small copyist quirks point to its creation between 1275 and 1315 CE. Written in Old French—the ...

The way the manuscript has been carefully executed, with decorated initials in red and blue, gave further clues to its origins and helped indicate that it was produced between the end of the 13th and ...

And from examining the manuscript in person, Bahr found 48 places with decorated initials, although we do not know whose. "The more you look, the more you find," Bahr says.