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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/28/11
Title:: 血湖經
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 血湖經 [xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted the River. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29
Title:: Anonymous Collector 29
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 42 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/29/1 to EAP1126/1/29/42. 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:: 1777-1975
Extent:: 1966 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/1
Title:: 一本亡秘語/老君金語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本亡秘語/老君金語 [yiben wang miyu/laojun jinyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙亥年立簿. Calendar note: Stem-branche...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1875-1935
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/2
Title:: 一本日午燈延安龍解冤秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本日午燈延安龍解冤秘語 [yiben riwu dengyan anlong jieyuan miyu]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “Thi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1878-1938
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/25
Title:: 一本集秘天機
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本集秘天機 [yiben jimi tianji]. External cover title: 天機秘語 [tianji miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊寅年正...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1878-1938
Extent:: 62 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/26
Title:: 一冊齋醮亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一冊齋醮亡秘語 [yice zhaijiao wang miyu ]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙巳年七月十三日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1905-1965
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/28
Title:: 一本按龍秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本按龍秘語 [Yiben anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸未年. Calendar note: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1883-1943
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/29
Title:: 一本齋醮亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本齋醮亡秘語 [yiben zhaijiao wang miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁亥年七月二十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches s...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1887-1947
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/37
Title:: 一本按龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 55 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/39
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南靈科 [Nanlingke]. 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1792-1852
Extent:: 58 TIFF images

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