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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/14/9
Title:: 上卷南靈
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 64 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/14/14
Title:: 安龍科
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1896-1956
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/14/16
Title:: 邙秘語
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1784-1844
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/14/17
Title:: 一本救患按龍秘語
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 76 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/14/19
Title:: 一本度亡喪家秘語
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 9 Oct 1932
Extent:: 71 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/15
Title:: Anonymous Collector 15
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1763-2004
Extent:: 852 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/15/2
Title:: 一本大部
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/15/7
Title:: 一本按龍科
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1901-1961
Extent:: 23 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/15/14
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/15/16
Title:: 茭龍科在頭破獄科在中煉度科在尾共一本
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2 Sep 1906
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

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