This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 上卷南靈 [Shangjuan nanling]. 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 ori...
External cover title and title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙申年底畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1896 / 1956. Extent and format of original m...
Title of the first text: 邙秘語 [wang miyu]. External cover title: 一本邙秘語天機 [yiben wang miyu tianji ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲辰年夾大?子月十四日院申時終畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or...
External cover title: 一本救患按龍秘語 [yiben jiuhuan anlong miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices; 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 150 foli...
Title of the first text: 一本度亡喪家秘語 [yben duwang sangjia miyu ]. External cover title: 一本道家喪塲秘語 [yiben daojia sangshang miyu ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 140 folios. Date(s) cl...
This collection contains 24 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/15/1 to EAP1126/1/15/24. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Title of the first text: 一本大部 [yiben dabu]. External cover title: 壹本南靈大部 [yiben nanling dabu ]. 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 118 folios.
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: 太歲辛丑䆊八月二十一日巳時杝抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1901 / 1961. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
External cover title: 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 68 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 茭龍科在頭 破獄科在中 煉度科在尾 共一本 [Jiaolong ke zaitou poyu zaizhong liandu ke zaiwei gongyiben]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to a...