First Folio from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and detail with Milarepa

Rectangular tea-brown page featuring Tibetan text flanked by illuminations; edges of page frayed and worn

First Folio from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and detail with Milarepa

Location
Lende Lang Puk
Date
1540
Material
xylographic print on paper
Dimensions
folio 3½ x 19 in. (9 x 48.3 cm)
Collection

Wellcome Collection, London

Photo Credit
image courtesy Wellcome Institute, Tibetan 6. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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