A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Umé) script, primarily in black ink but with some additional red ink. Some very small writing in places. Six pages with line drawing illustrations. Text identified by the local fieldworkers as...
A woodblock printed, unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Printed in " headed " Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A short commentary on the main text of the book that follows. A rough translation might be....A great commentary, a white gem, so the uneducated (non astrologers) can easily...
The household collection of Lobsang Gatuk. A collection of medical texts and medical artefacts. Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room.
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A text in two sections, woodblock printed in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. First title is difficult to read in parts because the inking is heavy but is perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེ...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་བཻ་ཌཱུར་སྔོན་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལས་དུམ་བུ་གཉིས་པ་བཤད་པའི་རྒ...
This collection consists of documents and manuscripts (including some typed letters and some printed documents) dating from the period 1750 to 1950. They reflect the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblate...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Tamil