A miniature illustrated scroll of the Devi-Mahatmya, also called Durga-patha and Candi, on the exploits of the goddess Durga (from the Markandeya-purana). It includes 19 illustrations, inside round and ovular cartouches framed in gold, across the length of the scroll.

The four illustrations that open the manuscript, appearing above the beginning of the text, are identical to those at the opening of Or Ms 674, a miniature illustrated scroll of the Bhagvadgita. This,and the general similarity between the two scrolls in terms of dimensions, composition and decoration, indicates that they may well have been produced in the same location, possibly the same atelier, and at the same time.

The present scroll is undated, but we have attributed to it the same approximate date as that marked on Or Ms 674, 1876 of the Hindu Vikram Samvat calendar corresponding to 1819-1820 C.E..