A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is an explanation of the use of the three kinds of mercury with in Tibetan medicine. (Tib. འདི་ན་གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཨ་ཤོ་པ་ནས་བརྒྱུད་པའི་དངུལ་ཆུ་སྐོར་གསུམ་གྱི་གདམས་པ་ཆ་ཚ྄ང་བར་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བགོད་པ་ཞལ་ཤེས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie 'di na grub chen a sho pa nas brgyud pa'i dngul chu skor gsum gyi gdams pa cha tshang bar phyogs gcig tu bgod pa zhal shes zhes bya ba bzhugs so.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 23 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 55.5 cm x 9 cm.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
