Nepal.- Ritual manual for protection from demons, Thyasaphu (concertina) manuscript in Sanskrit and Newari, on paper stained yellow with haritala, 38 leaves, with an additional 20 fold-out leaves mounted to fore-margin, text in black Newari script, 35 illustrations, folds strengthened, some chipping to fore-edge with small loss to some illustrations, some minor staining, leaves folding concertina-style into leather covers, lower cover protected with goat hair, lower cover detached along with final 2 leaves, housed in a custom morocco-backed box, each leaf c.80 x 180mm., Nepal, Phalguna Nepal Samvat 952 [February-March 1832].*** The illustrations in a charming and lively Nepalese folk style, opening with a depiction of the wrathful form of the Goddess between two towering flowers. After two depictions of deities come nagas, serpent deities revered as the guardians of springs, rivers and rainfall. Further paintings show serpent-bodied grahas (demons associated with various illnesses), a panoply of deities, nagas, yantras and mischievous demons, bhutans, many of whom brandish skulls. The closing illustrations are larger paintings of Shiva with his consort, Uma, and the wrathful Bhairava on his corpse vehicle. The verso of the manuscript is filled with Sanskrit text, ending in a colophon which gives the date of completion as the fourth day of the dark fortnight of Phalguna Nepal Samvat 952.