I’m sorry, but I have no information on the picture.

However, I am puzzled by the “homepage” for Widener Room A. It says there are 1500 manuscripts housed there. I have no memory of such a thing from a decade inhabiting that room.  As far as I know all the South Asian mss in Harvard  are kept in the Houghton along with the Western mss. There were some quite rare European printed books there from the 17th century, as well as some non-book raria such as glass slides of the old Bangkok royal palace, depicting even the female Amazonian harem guards.  But Prof. Ingalls, perhaps around 1970, got tired of the disorder and assigned students to take some things to their more appropriate depositories.  I don’t recall dealing with any non-Western mss.

I don’t see how 1500 Indic mss could be kept in any safe and orderly fashion in that small room.

If they are there, could they possibly be a recent gift?

Or could this simply be an error on the Widener A page?

Allen