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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/23
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇上五年癸丑歲六月十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1793 / 1853...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1793-1853
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/24
Title:: 一本交（茭）簡科破獄科
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本交（茭）簡科破獄科 [yiben jiaojian ke 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/28
Title:: 讚車材樓科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 讚車材樓科 [zan che cailou ke ]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house and car of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙未歲卯月乙未...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: Apr 2015
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/32
Title:: 大部南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 大部南靈科 [dabu 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 102 folios. Date(s) claimed...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 31 Mar 2015
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/34
Title:: 度煉科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 度煉科 [dulian ke ]. External cover title: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manus...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 22 Dec 1815
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6
Title:: Anonymous Collector 6
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 24 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/6/1 to EAP1126/1/6/24. 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:: 1764-1999
Extent:: 945 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/10
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 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: 癸丑年十二月二十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: T...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1853-1913
Extent:: 63 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/13
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 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 62 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/23
Title:: 安龍伸斗秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 安龍伸斗秘語 [anlong shendou miyu ]. External cover title: 伸斗安龍解冤秘壹本 [shendou anlong jieyuan mi yiben ]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios. Date(s) claimed in...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1924-1984
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/24
Title:: 道門大小齋邙秘語一冊
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 道門大小齋邙秘語一冊 [Daomen daxiaozhai wang miyu yice]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1822
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

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