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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/11/19
Title:: 先主來請聖之法
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 先主來請聖之法 [Xianzhu lai qingsheng zhi fa]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, ceremony in Taoist rituals or funerals. Custodial history: Private col...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 46 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/11/20
Title:: 煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and 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 ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tabl...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/11/24
Title:: 壹本破獄龍重茭簡科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本破獄龍重茭簡科 [Yiben poyu longzhong jiaojian ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let them know that the sec...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1910
Extent:: 50 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12
Title:: Anonymous Collector 12
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 34 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/12/1 to EAP791/1/12/34. 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:: 1842-1986
Extent:: 1749 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/2
Title:: 一本按龍科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke]. External cover title: 一本按龍科在頭小南靈在尾 [yiben anlong ke zaitou xiao nanling zaiwei]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 51 folios...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/3
Title:: 一本按龍科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke]. External cover title: 一本按龍科在頭小南靈在尾 [yiben anlong ke zaitou xiao nanling zaiwei]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 106 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/4
Title:: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛促人讃材樓斎醮共一本黃文廣號
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛促人讃材樓斎醮共一本黃文廣號 [Nanxiangbaiwen jiaojianke poyuke shufan curen zancailou zhaijiao gongyiben huangwenguanghao]. Instructions for sending the messenger drag...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 107 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/8
Title:: 按龍謝墓科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍謝墓科 [Anlong xiemu ke]. Ceremony to allay various gods and ghosts (especially the dragon gods), ensuring the peace of the deceased resting in the cemetery and the fortune ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 64 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/11
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 [yawangke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842-1986
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/14
Title:: 度亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 度亡秘語 [Duwang 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 the l...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 70 TIFF images

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