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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/15/12
Title:: 一本符命式
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本符命式 [yiben fuming shi]. Compilation of spells which seem to be used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 46 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒庚辰歲六...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1880
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16
Title:: Anonymous Collector 16
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 31 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/16/1 to EAP791/1/16/31. 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:: 1855-1978
Extent:: 1013 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/6
Title:: 壹本大斎亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本大斎亡秘語 [Yiben da zhaiwang miyu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/10
Title:: 伸斗按龍解冤秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤秘語 [Shendou anlong jieyuan miyu]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; She...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/14
Title:: 壹本迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 39 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 中華民國三十二年癸未歲.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/15
Title:: 一本沐浴化依科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本沐浴化依科 [yiben muyu huayi ke]. Instructions for bathing the deceased and making the paper clothes for them. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 20 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1944
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/21
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍科 [Anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 22...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 64 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/24
Title:: 一本煉度初真科
Scope & Content:: 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: 一本煉度初真科 [yiben liandu chuzhen ke.] Instructions about sublimating the souls of the newly deceased for ascending to heaven. Custodial history: Private coll...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/28
Title:: 壹本煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本煉度科 [yiben liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancesto...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17
Title:: Anonymous Collector 17
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 39 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/17/1 to EAP791/1/17/39. 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:: 1650-1940
Extent:: 1423 TIFF images

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