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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/10
Title:: 讚燈科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 讚燈科 [Zandeng ke]. Instructions to turn on the lamp of the Keau Hu Man so they can have light in the Purgatory. They give them also the money so the newly dead have cash to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 9 Dec 1875
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/11
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 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 52 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國三年七月十七日完筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 6 Sep 1914
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/14
Title:: 一本大南靈
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大南靈 [yiben dananling ]. 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 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 15 Feb 1961-4 Feb 1962
Extent:: 59 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/19
Title:: 一本齋亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本齋亡秘語 [Yiben 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 make problems...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 16 Dec 1895-14 Jan 1896
Extent:: 63 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/21
Title:: 謝王化依科一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 謝王化依科一本 [xiewang huayi ke yiben]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 76 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十三年十二月十四日辰時終筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 6 Jun 1898
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/22
Title:: 按龍伸斗秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 按龍伸斗秘語 [anlong shendou miyu ]. External cover title: 按龍伸斗科 [anlong shendou ke ]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39
Title:: Anonymous Collector 39
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 30 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/39/1 to EAP1126/1/39/30. 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:: 1770-1967
Extent:: 1320 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/12
Title:: 伸斗按龍秘語
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: 伸斗按龍秘語 [shendou anlong miyu]. Anlong: Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Shendou: First ceremony for th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 15 Feb 1847-2 Feb 1848
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/13
Title:: 齋亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 齋亡秘語 [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 make problems for the living. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 12 Feb 1888-30 Jan 1889
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/18
Title:: 茭佔簡破獄三科共本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 茭佔簡破獄三科共本 [Jiaozhanjian poyu sanke gongben]. External cover title: 讚才科 [zancai ke]. Compilation of three texts: iaojian, Poyu and Zancailou. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

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