A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with occasional additional writing in dbu med (Ume) script. A beautiful illuminated manuscript with some gold lettering on black as well as several illustrations of Tibetan religious figures at the start and finish and additionally, some diagrams. A detailed commentary on the third medical tantra, the oral tradition tantra, commissioned to add further detail and important information to the first commentary. Close up details of illustrations from the text are added at the end of the text files. (Tib. ༄༅། །མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་སེལ་བའི་ཀཏྤཱུར་དུས་མིན་འཆི་ཞགས་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdung sel ba'i kat+pUr dus min 'chi zhags gcod pa'i ral gri bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 368 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 57 cm x 9 cm.
Condition of original material: Excellent condition for its age.
Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father Labu Chherring, who inherited the bulk of the material from his father, Tsering Tashi Labu's grandfather. All three men trained to become amchi, doctors in the Tibetan tradition. Father and grandfather were, in addition, singers (nyahon) and speechmakers (molawa).
Arrangement: All the material was kept in the prayer room of Tsering Tashi Labu's house (unseen). 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.
