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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/29
Title:: 蛟龍竪旛從人讃樓科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 蛟龍竪旛從人讃樓科 [jiaolong shufan congren zancailou ke]. External cover title: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛從人讃材樓齋醮煉度共一本 [nanxiangbaiwen jiaojian ke poyu ke shufan congren zancailou zhaijiao liandu gongyiben ]. Instructions for sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 55 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/33
Title:: 迓王科一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科重集旛戎在尾 [yawang ke chongji fanrong zaiwei]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 35 folios. Chine...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13
Title:: Anonymous Collector 13
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 32 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/13/1 to EAP791/1/13/32. 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:: 1806-1991
Extent:: 1281 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/7
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 19 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/13
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:: 1848
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/19
Title:: 雷府科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 雷府科 [leifu ke]. External cover title: 雷府冤解科 [leifu yuanjie ke]. Compilation of two texts: Lei fu and Yuan jie (Jie yuan). Lei fu: Instructions for the ritual to fight back against a ‘report to the spirits’; Yuan jie: Magic to build a house for the deities with three le...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1850
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/21
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 36...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1806
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/23
Title:: 一本大喃靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本大喃靈科 [yiben da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da 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 mat...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/24
Title:: 一本大部南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本大部南靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da 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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1991
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/25
Title:: 按龍伸斗珍棺木秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 按龍伸斗珍棺木秘語 [anlong shendou zhenguanmu miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about details of the ritual and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios. Chinese ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

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