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