དཔེ་ཆ

An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Close up details of woodblock illustrations follow the pages of text. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib ༄༅། །མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་སེལ་བའི་ཀཏྦུ་ར་དུས་མིན་འཆི་ཞབས་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་བཞུགས། Wylie. man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdung sel ba'i kat+bu ra dus min 'chi zhabs gcod pa'i ral gri bzhugs) An instructional appendix to the amchi texts.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of 286 folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 48 cm x 8.75cm.

Condition of original material: The initial pages stained through usage.

Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.