Manuscript

32-47-14

From: Tibet

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 32-47-14
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tibetan
Provenience Tibet
Date Made 1500-1932
Section Asian
Materials Paper
Technique Woodblock Printed
Iconography Charms | Dharanis | Bird
Inscription Language Tibetan Language | Tibetan Dbu Can Script
Description

Charms to ward off evil from a house, Beginning and ending of text published. Tibetan manuscripts. Tibetan: Tibetan dbu can script. No date or title. Text consists of charms (?) to ward off evil from a house. Poor quality locally made paper. Good condition. 14 folios on 7 sheets sewn together. 7 lines per folio side. Each folio identical. Wood block printed. Some inked too much and blurred, some not inked enough. Upper right quarter contains grid with dharanis and figures of fowl.

Credit Line Academy of Natural Science / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932
Other Number 19 - Other Number | M17 - Levitt Number

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