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EAP1221/15/1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004549201
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549199
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553834.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/15/1/1
- Title:
- དཔེ་ཆ
- Additional Titles:
-
dpe cha
A Pecha. A Tibetan book, made of long strips of paper, in imitation of the Indian palm-leaf manuscripts.
- Scope & Content:
- 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 understand the contents (of the main text) Or alternatively: The great commentary like a white gemstone, for those without astrological knowledge བསྟན་བཅོས་ཆེན་པོ་བེེདཱུརྱ་དཀོར་པོར་བློ་རྨོངས་འཇུག་པ་བདེ་བའི་ཕྱིར་དཀར་ཆག་ཐོར་བུར་བཀོད་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། བསྟན་བཅོས commentary; ཆེན་པོ great; དཀར་ཆག contents; བེེདཱུརྱ་དཀར་པོ། white gem; བློ་རྨོངས uneducated; འཇུག་པ་བདེ་བའི can enter easily; ཐོར་བུར miscellaneous writings.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 5 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 59.5 cm x 11 cm.
Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Cover is damaged and stained with part of the folio missing. The text is rather lightly printed on very thin paper, with substantial see through. Nevertheless the text is full legible throughout.
Custodial history: Handed down to Thinley Namgyal through his family from his grandfather and probably great grandfather before him.
Arrangement: System of arrangement unknown. It seems that this might well be from a substantial collection. However it was the only material we were permitted to see and digitise. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004549199
036-004549200
040-004549201 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/15 : Thinley Namgyal Collection
EAP1221/15/1 : Astrological texts
EAP1221/15/1/1 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549199[0001]/036-004549200[0001]/040-004549201
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/15
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 10
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-15-1-1
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1940
- Date Range:
- Early 20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- CC BY-NC.
- Arrangement:
- System of arrangement unknown. It seems that this might well be from a substantial collection. However it was the only material we were permitted to see and digitise
- Information About Copies:
- Digital copies are also held by: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Gangchen Kyishong Dharamsala 176215 HP, India Tel: +91 9218422467
- Information About Originals:
- The original material is located in The household of the Thinley Namgyal
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)