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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/35
Title:: Anonymous Collector 35
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 11 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/35/1 to EAP1126/1/35/11. 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:: 1759-1936
Extent:: 326 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/35/5
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [Yiben yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚午年二月初七抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches syste...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1810-1870
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/35/7
Title:: 迓王科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科壹本 [yawang ke yiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國二十五年六月抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18 Jul 1936-16 Aug 1936
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/36
Title:: Anonymous Collector 36
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 30 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/36/1 to EAP1126/1/36/30. 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:: 1750-1989
Extent:: 1366 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/36/3
Title:: 一本煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 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 join the ancesto...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/36/20
Title:: 按龍科一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 按龍科一本 [anlong ke yiben]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐壬戌歲八月五日抄完. Calendar note: Various units bounded together produced in different times. Extent and format of original mate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1831-1861
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37
Title:: Anonymous Collector 37
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 42 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/37/1 to EAP1126/1/37/42. 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:: 1796-1959
Extent:: 1538 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/5
Title:: 從人讚才樓破獄交简科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 從人讚才樓破獄交简科 [congren zancailou poyu jiaojian ke]. External cover title: 一本破獄科 [yiben poyu ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. It contains instructions so this house has everything in the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 29 Jun 1954
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/10
Title:: 大亡秘語
Scope & Content:: 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: 大亡秘語 [dawang 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 p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 11 Nov 1899
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/11
Title:: 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: 按龍秘語 [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 94 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

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