西藏 約十四世紀 木刻彩繪護經板 |

Amy Heller, Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, Milan, 1999, cat. no. 98.

The inner face of this rare and unusual book cover retains the majority of its original gold and polychrome with a rich and lustrous patina of age overall, and is one of the only known to feature the great Tibetan poet and yogin Milarepa (1040-1123). Compare the style of a fourteenth or early fifteenth century book cover, in Kathryn H. Selig Brown, Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection, Munich, London, New York, 2012, cat. 44.