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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/50
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:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29
Title:: Anonymous Collector 29
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 43 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/29/1 to EAP791/1/29/43. 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:: 1779-1936
Extent:: 1482 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/4
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 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 26 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 嘉慶拾玖年甲戌歲丁卯月望三日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/11
Title:: 一本救經
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: 一本救經 [yiben jiujing.] A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the ba...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1933
Extent:: 11 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/12
Title:: 小南靈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 小南靈科 [xiao 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 material: 1 volume of 14 foli...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/13
Title:: 救患巫教秘
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救患巫教秘 [Jiuhuan wujiao mi]. 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 ‘...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/15
Title:: 一本亡秘語天機
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本亡秘語天機 [yiben wang miyu tianji]. 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:: 1936
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/17
Title:: 壹冊按龍秘語
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: 壹冊按龍秘語 [yice anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/22
Title:: 籠重茭簡破獄同一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 籠重茭簡破獄同一本 [longzhong jiaojian poyu tong yiben]. Compilation of two texts: Longzhongjiaojian and Poyu. Longzhongjiaojian:Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death rit...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/23
Title:: 按龍伸斗解冤
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍伸斗解冤 [Anlong shendou jieyuan]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

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