དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An amchi (Tibetan medical) text about recovering from illness. དྲང་སྲོང་ནད་གསོ་བའི་ཡང་ཐིག་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གོ་ཁྲབ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of ten folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 49 cm x 8.5 cm.

Condition of original material: Generally good condition for its age. Some staining, some text highighted in brown or yellow. Text is legible throughout.

Custodial history: Material handed down from the current owner's father.

Arrangement: A series of amchi (Tibetan medical) texts, kept in the owner's 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.