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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/2
Title:: 雜謝水符本境聖母雷王南朝科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 雜謝水符本境聖母雷王南朝科 [Zaxie shuifu benjing shengmu leiwang nanchao ke]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt. Healing cerem...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/12
Title:: 煉度
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 [Liandu]. 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 cer...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/15
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍科 [Anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 45...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1849
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/18
Title:: 大小斎聖目
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 大小斎聖目 [daxiaozhaishengmu]. External cover title: 無上東獄解冤中壇科 [wu shang dong yu jie yuan zhong tan ke]. Magic to build a house for the deities with three levels outside of the house. In the magic kill the Jade Emperor and substitute him with the second in charge. Organize...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1778
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/20
Title:: 三夜喪家秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 三夜喪家秘語 [sanye sangjia miyu]. Instructions about various details in the rituals for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios. Chinese era...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/23
Title:: 南昌科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 南昌科 [nanchang ke]. External cover title: 南昌大煉科 [nanchang dalian ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual. They are bathed with water. In the last part of this ceremony, the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/25
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. External cover title: 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: Private collection. Extent and format of original mate...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 51 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/34
Title:: 燈延伸斗按龍解冤朝天諸蜜天機
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 燈延伸斗按龍解冤朝天諸蜜天機 [Dengyan shendou anlong jieyuan chaotian zhumi tianji]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/38
Title:: 謝王化依科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 謝王化依科 [Xiewang huayi ke]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 51 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/25/39
Title:: 貢王救苦設醮同用
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 貢王救苦設醮同用 [Gongwang jiuku shejiao tongyong]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, hous...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Search