Title of the first text: 大齋良緣秘語 [dazhai liangyuan miyu ]. External cover title: 無上良緣秘語壹卷 [wushang liangyuan miyu yijuan ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天子萬年下元甲子乙卯歲孟夏四月廿日抄. Calendar note: Stem-br...
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: 一本合婚戔 [yiben hehun jian ]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 12...
External cover title: 說醮科 飛章科 [shuojiao ke feizhang ke ]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios.
Title of the first text: 招兵科一本 [zhaobing ke yiben ]. External cover title: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清光緒四年戊寅歲林鐘月朔十日完畢.
External cover title: 醮齋関告茭龍破獄科 [jiaozhai guangao jiaolong poyu ke ]. Text with instructions to open the ceremony. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume ...
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: 一本宿啟科 [yiben suqi ke ]. Ceremony to announce various gods in advance (namely Suqi), as a preparation period of the whole ritual. Extent and format of orig...
External cover title: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Title of the first text: 壹本小橋台科 [yiben xiao qiaotai ke ]. External cover title: 一本小橋台 [yiben xiao qiaotai ]. Instructions to build an ‘earth bridge’ for Tai Mu. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊子年七月初三日酉完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1828 ...
External cover title: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲癸亥年五月二十四日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1923 / 1983. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
Title of the first text: 中卷南靈科 [zhongjuan nanling ke ]. External cover title: 南靈科 [nanling ke ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 90 folios.