Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Death - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/7
Title:: 一本貢筵紅樓秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本貢筵紅樓秘語 [yiben gongyan honglou miyu]. External cover title: 貢筵紅樓秘語 [gongyan honglou miyu]. Instruction of Magic to build the altars in this side and the other world for the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 148 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 75 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/8
Title:: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧同冊用朝天
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧同冊用朝天 [yiben wangmi xiangzhan tongce yongchaotian]. External cover title: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧鵉音 [yiben wangmi xiangzhan luanyin]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲辛...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1911-1971
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/13
Title:: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本 [longtong jiaojian poyu ke tongyiben]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1927-1987
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/18
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/19
Title:: 上卷南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 上卷南靈科 [shangjuan 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙丑年正月十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1925-1985
Extent:: 71 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/20
Title:: [煉度科]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [煉度科] [[liandu ke]]. Liandu: Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/33
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: 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 50 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/35
Title:: 一本謝境王雷王水符王
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本謝境王雷王水符王 [yiben xie jingwang leiwang shufiuwang]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt; Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest; and heal...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/36
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇號壬申年八月十九. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1812 / 1872. Extent and for...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1812-1872
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/3
Title:: Anonymous Collector 3
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 63 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/3/1 to EAP1126/1/3/63. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1800-2007
Extent:: 2296 TIFF images

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