དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script.. A text for a wrathful fire puja དྲག་པོའི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་གི་ལག་ལེན་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of seven folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 32.5 cm x 9 cm.

Condition of original material: Some text highighted in yellow brown pen.

Custodial history: The older material has been handed down from father to son for at least four generations.

Arrangement: All the material is stored in the prayer room (not seen) and was brought out to be measured and digitised. It is kept in boxes when travelling. 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 has been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.