Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Language: Tibetan - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/1/4
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: 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་...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 597

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/1
Title:: པིར་རུ
Scope & Content:: Medical suction cups. A collection of five suction cups: two brass cones and three animal horn tips that used for "cupping" the technique of applying a vacuum to remove bad blood (black blood). The cup is applied to the skin for half an hour, the hole in the tip of the cup sealed for that time wi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/2
Title:: Medical artefacts
Scope & Content:: A metal container with wooden pull out drawer and five amchi medical tools, one razor sharp for cutting skin, plus a single spoon. Extent: One medical container, several small tools and a brass spoon. Size and dimensions of original material: The container is 16 x 3 x 3 cm, the spoon is 20.5 cm ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/3
Title:: Leather bags
Scope & Content:: A collections of twelve small leather bags of varying sizes. Extent: Twelve leather bags. Size and dimensions of original material: Varying from 7.5 to 14 cm long. Condition of original material: Worn and stained through age and usage. Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/4
Title:: Grinding stone
Scope & Content:: A large grinding stone for producing powdered ingredients for medicines. It consist of a large flat grinding stone surface with raised lip and a smaller round stone to be held in the hand whilst grinding dried ingredients. Extent: One grinding stone. Size and dimensions of original material: 45 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/5
Title:: Large leather bag
Scope & Content:: A large leather bag brought from Tibet over two generations ago and containing medical ingredients. Extent: One leather bag. Size and dimensions of original material: 65 cm long. Condition of original material: Worn and stained through age and usage. Arrangement: All material kept in the house...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/17
Title:: Sonam Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Sonam Dorje. A single Tibetan divination text for use in a medical context. Custodial history: A single amchi (medical) divination text inherited from his great grandfather. Arrangement: An individual text kept in the prayer room of the family home.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 116

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/17/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An unbound woodblock printed Tibetan medical text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Entitled: དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྣོ་མཐོང་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དེའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་དང་བཅས་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། A divination (རྣོ་མཐོང) text used by a village amchis (Tibetan doctors) but als...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 116

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