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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/28
Title:: 謝境科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 謝境科 [xiejing ke]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 17 folios. Chinese era name (regnal yea...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1843
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/29
Title:: 啟師破獄科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 啟師破獄科 [qishi poyu ke]. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/30
Title:: 一本按龍科沐浴化依科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本按龍科沐浴化依科 [yiben anlong ke muyu huayi ke]. External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke muyu huayi ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Instructions for bathing the deceased and making the paper clothes for them. Custodial history: Private...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 88 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/32
Title:: 接聖科
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: 接聖科 [jiesheng ke.] Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Bring the money fro...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/34
Title:: 一本通用
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本通用 [yiben tongyong]. Instructions about providing an offering for the gods, with a common form. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 78 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲？壬午年三月十五...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 160 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/35
Title:: 大獻科
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: 大獻科. [daxian ke]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to Heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Custodial history: Pri...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/36
Title:: 迓王科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科壹本 [yawangkeyiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/37
Title:: 下堂煉度科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 下堂煉度科壹本 [xiatang liandu ke yiben]. 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 t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1885
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/38
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 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Also a feast for the Ten Magistrates, the Keau Hu Man, the Tham Taeng, and the Yao Zhaeng. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/39
Title:: 按龍秘語受戒二本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語受戒二本 [Anlong miyu shoujie erben]. Compilation of two texts: An long and Shou jie. An long:Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 58 TIFF images

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