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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/4
Title:: Calendar calculation, funeral rituals, talismans
Scope & Content:: Instructions for calendar calculation; mantras to stop evils in funerals; talismans to relieve a village from misfortunes. 72 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; fabric cover; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 19cm x 12.5cm. A page is blank ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 76 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/5
Title:: Purification ceremony, fortune telling, calendar calculation, medicine
Scope & Content:: Instructions for Cham calendar calculation; incantations to prevent the apparition of the ill-fated dead from harming other family's members; about age compatibility between husband and wife; fortune telling to find lost assets; some secret medicine used by shamans. 132 pages. Cham manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 136 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32
Title:: Cham manuscripts inherited by Mr. Ma Ngoc Thanh, from Lam Thuan Village
Scope & Content:: 24 Cham manuscripts, paper, originally belonged to Mr. Ma Ngoc Thanh. Subjects include: religious ceremonies, fortune telling, mantras, epics, poems, dictionary. Manuscripts were collected for research purposes by Mr. Thanh Phan. 24 manuscripts of handmade paper, handwritten text. Manuscripts ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 602 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/2
Title:: The works of shamans
Scope & Content:: The works of Gru Urang shamans. Rituals performed on land that used to be a graveyard; purification rituals for buffaloes and people; finding the proper zodiac hours, days, months; learning about the zodiac animals; incantations to neutralize magic spells. 82 pages. Cham manuscript; covered by...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 86 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/4
Title:: Farewell mantras to the dead
Scope & Content:: Mantras, incantations used by Basaih dignitaries to perform farewell rituals to the dead to send them back to their ancestors. 8 pages. Cham manuscript; no covers; some last pages are lost; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 28.5cm x 15cm. The con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/5
Title:: Farewell rituals for ill-fated infants
Scope & Content:: Mantras, incantations and instructions for performing a farewell ritual to ill-fated infants to send them back to their ancestors. 10 pages. Cham manuscript; no covers; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 30cm x 17.5cm. The condition of the manuscr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 10 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33
Title:: Cham manuscripts inherited by Mr. Nai Cao Liem, from Vu Bon Village
Scope & Content:: 33 Cham manuscripts, paper, palm-leaf, originally belonged to Mr. Nai Cao Liem. Subjects include: religious ceremonies, fortune telling, mantras, legends. Manuscripts were collected for research purposes by Mr. Thanh Phan. 33 manuscripts of handmade paper, handwritten text. Manuscripts of Chin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 18th century-20th century
Extent:: 1275 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33/3
Title:: Mantras to stop evils, funeral rituals for Cham Ahier
Scope & Content:: Mantras used stop evils and about funeral rituals for Cham Ahier (Hindu). 20 pages. Cham manuscript; cover using handmade paper; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thrah script. Size: 29.5cm x 16cm. 2 pages are torn off (001, 002). The condition of the manuscript is ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33/9
Title:: The work of shamans
Scope & Content:: The manuscript mentions many contents: recognizing the deities who protect the house; the ceremony of making human figures to replace (sick) people; mantras to bless fetuses; mantras when eating meat with unknownn origin or when having a bone stuck in throat, the ceremony of cleansing a dead bod...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 90 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/33/13
Title:: The work of Hindu shamans
Scope & Content:: Incantations and instructions used by Gru Urang for exorcism, healing, body cleansing; rituals for funerals of the Cham Ahier (Hindu); understanding the deities who protect human beings; choosing fair times for departure; mantras used in the buffalo sacrificial ceremony. 28 pages. Cham manusc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

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