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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/39
Title:: 破獄交簡煉度秘
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 破獄交簡煉度秘 [Poyu jiaojian liandu mi]. Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu:The Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18
Title:: Anonymous Collector 18
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 7 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/18/1 to EAP791/1/18/7. 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:: 1806-2013
Extent:: 313 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18/2
Title:: 按龍科在頭南靈科在尾
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 按龍科在頭南靈科在尾 [anlong ke zaitou nanling ke zaiwei]. External cover title: 安龍南靈共一本 [anlong nanling gong yiben]. Compilation of two texts: Anlong and Nanling. Anlong:Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Nanling:Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1889
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18/4
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. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2010
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19
Title:: Anonymous Collector 19
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 55 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/19/1 to EAP791/1/19/55. 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:: 1810-1960
Extent:: 1940 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/2
Title:: 壹冊大部天機金語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹冊大部天機金語 [yice dabu tianji jinyu]. External cover title: 壹本天亡天機秘語 [yiben tianwang tianji miyu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/4
Title:: 按龍秘語一本救患秘
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語一本救患秘 [Anlong miyu yiben jiuhuan mi]. Compilation of two texts: An long and jiu huan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Jiu huan: Th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1889
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/7
Title:: 一本小百秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本小百秘語 [yiben xiaobai miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉秘語金語 [huangquan miyu jinyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1891
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/11
Title:: 一本亡秘朝天金語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本亡秘朝天金語 [yiben wang mi chaotian jinyu]. External cover title: 一本亡秘語 [yiben 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. Custodial history: Pr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1960
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/13
Title:: 早晚救患秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 早晚救患秘語 [zaowan jiuhuan miyu]. External cover title: 三宮科 [sangong ke]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘kill the insects/pest’ of the flowers, that is to prot...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1931
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

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