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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/21
Title:: 小橋台科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 小橋台科 [Xiao qiaotai ke]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1876
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/22
Title:: 老號合婚書
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 老號合婚書 [laohao hehun shu]. External cover title: 一本鶴婚書中卷 [yiben hehun shu zhongjuan]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. It is used in matchmaking in order to guarantee an hamonious life for the couple; the souls of the couple are b...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 84 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/23
Title:: 大小斎醮神目科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 大小斎醮神目科 [daxiao zhaijiao shenmu ke]. External cover title: 一本諸神目 [yiben zhu shenmu]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent an...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1844
Extent:: 82 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/24
Title:: 濟度血湖真經一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 濟度血湖真經一本 [jidu xuehu zhenjing yiben]. External cover title: 血湖真經 [xuehu zhenjing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted the River. Custodial history: Private co...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

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