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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/8
Title:: 一本南靈科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本南靈科 [Yiben nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Priva...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1874
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/10
Title:: 一本按龍科
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: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke.] Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 69 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/15
Title:: 壹冊南靈科
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: 壹冊南靈科 [yice'nanlingke.] Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 102 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/19
Title:: 一本大部南靈科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本大部南靈科 [Yiben dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 99 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/21
Title:: 一本龍？唱又含三師祈雨唱
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本龍？唱又含三師祈雨唱 [Yiben long? chang youhan sanshi qiyu chang]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Ceremony to pray the gods for rain. Custodial histor...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 38 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/22
Title:: 一本大小亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本大小亡秘語 [Yiben daxiao 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 prob...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 13 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/21/24
Title:: 一本日午秘語按龍在尾日午在頭
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本日午秘語按龍在尾日午在頭 [yiben riwu miyu anlong zaiwei riwu zaitou]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1822
Extent:: 80 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/22
Title:: Anonymous Collector 22
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 12 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/22/1 to EAP791/1/22/12. 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:: 1788-1915
Extent:: 762 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/22/5
Title:: 喪家燈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 喪家燈科 [sangjia deng ke]. 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 material: 1 volume of 56 folios. Chinese era name...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1815
Extent:: 116 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/22/7
Title:: 隔空亡秘語一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 隔空亡秘語一本 [gekong wang miyu yiben]. 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: Private collection. Extent and ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1912
Extent:: 9 TIFF images

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