External cover title and title of the first text: 送終燈科 [songzhong dengke]. Instructions for the dead in the house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 74 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐九年巳未歲珄寶月下旬啟/六月二十一日辰時終筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家文字惩式 [Sangjia wenzi chengshi]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙丑年正月初十日完.
This collection contains 42 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/26/1 to EAP1126/1/26/42. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Title of the first text: 一本受戒安龍天機秘 [yiben shoujie anlong tianji mi]. External cover title: 安龍秘 [anlongmi]. Compilation of two texts: An long and Shou jie. An long:Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Shou jie: Magic for the ordination tjai sei....
Title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. External cover title: 一本安龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚申年六月二十日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1740 / 1800 / 1860....
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝王化依科 [yiben xiewang huayi ke ]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丁巳歲二月十五日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 日午安龍秘語 [riwu anlong miyu]. 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 108 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 同治六年丁卯歲二月二十日抄完.
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: 一本小亡秘語共進貢法 [yiben xiao wangmiyu gong jingongfa]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for t...
Title of the first text: 急時救患秘語 伸斗安龍解冤 [jishi jiuhuan miyu shendou anlong jieyuan]. External cover title: 急時救患 按龍伸斗 [jishijiuhuan anlong shendou]. Miscellaneous descriptions of the exorcist healing rituals and magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the grave...