The MS that was used for the cover of Wendy's book is in fact an incomplete Nepalese MS that probably included the text of the Ratirahasya or the Anaṅgaraṅga.  The surviving textual part of the MS includes passages from Purāṇas, and passages on women's temperaments.

I attach my description of the MS, which is in the Wellcome Library, London and is formally known as "Wellcome MS Indic alpha 1948".  Several folios have been digitized and are available on the Wellcome's website.  Go to http://wellcomeimages.org/ and search for "Nepalese."


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Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
University of Vienna,
Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria
and
Adjunct Professor,
Division of Health and Humanities,
St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
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On 11 February 2014 12:51, Manu Francis <manufrancis@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

I have been asked by a colleague, without being able to provide a clear answer, about the date of the earliest Kamasutra manuscripts with erotic illustrations or simply erotic illustrations derived from the Kamasutra.
Has anybody ideas and, even better, references to share?

With very best wishes.

Emmanuel Francis
Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
http://ceias.ehess.fr/
http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725
http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/
Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950, Universität Hamburg)
http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html


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