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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/36
Title:: 迓王科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科壹本 [yawangkeyiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/37
Title:: 下堂煉度科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 下堂煉度科壹本 [xiatang liandu ke yiben]. 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 t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1885
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/38
Title:: 迓王科一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Also a feast for the Ten Magistrates, the Keau Hu Man, the Tham Taeng, and the Yao Zhaeng. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/39
Title:: 按龍秘語受戒二本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語受戒二本 [Anlong miyu shoujie erben]. Compilation of two texts: An long and Shou jie. An long:Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 58 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/41
Title:: 亡故大敗秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 亡故大敗秘語 [wanggu dabai miyu]. External cover title: 南敗秘語 [nannbai miyu ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mater...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 46 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/46
Title:: 一本亡秘語
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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/59
Title:: 救苦經
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 14 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24
Title:: Anonymous Collector 24
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 46 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/24/1 to EAP791/1/24/46. 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:: 1807-1977
Extent:: 1888 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/1
Title:: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾 [yiben fuming shi dalian zaitou xiaolian zaiwei]. 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 ha...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/14
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. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

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