External cover title and title of the first text: 一本小雜㗫解秘語 [yiben xiaoza qiejie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics, especially used in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰年正月廿三日卯時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or...
This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is for the title on the outer cover. External cover title: 壹本禮境草(單)時 [yiben lijing danshi]. Organize the meal for the Deities who have joined the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 fo...
Title of the first text: 一本初真披簪開解科 [yiben chuzhen pizan kaijie ke ]. External cover title: 壹本初真簪披開解科 初真在頭 簪披在中 開解在尾 [yiben chuzhen zanpi kaijie ke chuzhen zaitou zanpi zaizhong kaijie zaiwei]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of th...
External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁巳?八月拾一日終完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1917 / 1977. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 132 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光庚子歲十月廿四日辰時.
External cover title: 貢王救苦說醮科 [gongwang jiuku shuojiao ke ]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲癸亥年五月中旬十二日申時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦說醮科 [jiuku shuojiao ke ]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙巳年六月七日申時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cyc...
Title of the first text: 一本化依小顆(科) [yiben huayi xiaoke ]. External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke ]. Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬戌年八月中旬十七日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1922 / 1982. ...
External cover title: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰䚴正月初三日巳時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: ...
External cover title: 一本盤皇接聖科 [yiben panhuang jiesheng ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年八月十六日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dat...