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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/31/34
Title:: 大小兇路斎亡天機秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 大小兇路斎亡天機秘語 [daxiao xionglu zhaiwang 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: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1853-1913
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/31/37
Title:: 壹本兇路斎亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本兇路斎亡秘語 [Yiben xionglu zhaiwang 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 mak...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1802-1862
Extent:: 38 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32
Title:: Anonymous Collector 32
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 49 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/32/1 to EAP1126/1/32/49. 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:: 1781-1945
Extent:: 1988 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/14
Title:: 煉度科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. External cover title: 一本煉度科 [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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/15
Title:: 一本南靈科迓王科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本南靈科迓王科 [Yiben nanling ke yawang ke]. Compilation of two texts: Nanlinag and Yawang. Nanling:I nstructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 9 Sep 1935
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/18
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 76 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐二年壬子歲夏月初八完筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 3 Sep 1851
Extent:: 38 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/20
Title:: 一本茭簡科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本茭簡科 [Yiben jiaojian ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let them know that the secondary death ritual...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/25
Title:: 一本斎亡金語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本斎亡金語 [yiben zhaiwang jinyu]. External cover title: 一本斎亡天機 [yiben zhaiwang tianji]. 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. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 14 Aug 1945
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/32/48
Title:: 茭簡破獄二科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡破獄二科 [jiaojian poyu erke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1880
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/33
Title:: Anonymous Collector 33
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 29 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/33/1 to EAP1126/1/33/29. 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:: 1775-1938
Extent:: 971 TIFF images

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