Modsudin, eldest soon of Baduncha thirteenth king / or mogul of Indostan, after barely a year ascending the throne / he was conquered by his brothers soon Azem tanna / in name fanochen, dethroned, and beheaded. Drawing from the manuscript of the VOC servant Adrianus Canter Visscher with twenty-eight Indian miniatures and two maps of places on the Coromandel Coast in the back. The text consists of two parts: a history of the Mughal Empire and the VOC settlements on the Coromandel Coast; this is followed by an advice to the Heren XVII about the economic situation of the VOC in the Coromandel.
Watercolour on paper
