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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/24
Title:: 一本小煉式
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本小煉式 [Yiben xiaolian shi]. Compilation of spells used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/26
Title:: 血湖經
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/31
Title:: [Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has does not contain a formal title on either the outer cover of the manuscript or the internal cover of the first text. Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/32
Title:: 煉度科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 煉度科 [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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1845
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/38
Title:: 中卷符命式
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 中卷符命式 [Zhongjuan fuming shi]. Compilation of spells which seem to be used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of orig...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1921
Extent:: 13 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/40
Title:: 交簡破獄科共壹本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 交簡破獄科共壹本 [jiaojian poyu ke gong yiben]. External cover title: 交簡破獄科 [jiaojian poyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1845
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/46
Title:: 按龍科一卷下本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 按龍科一卷下本 [anlong ke yijuan xiaben]. External cover title: 按龍化依科共本 [anlong huayi ke gongben ]. Compilation of two texts. An Long:Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Hua Yi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/r...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1884
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/48
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 Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 62 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/54
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 29 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲？...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20
Title:: Anonymous Collector 20
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 23 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/20/1 to EAP791/1/20/23. 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:: 1775-1952
Extent:: 1595 TIFF images

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