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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/40
Title:: 另養秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 另養秘語 [Lingyang miyu]. Money, fruit, fruit trees, food, rice fields, gardens, houses, etc. for Tjaeng Daeh - deities in which the members of household belive - of the househ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/41
Title:: 亡故大敗秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 亡故大敗秘語 [wanggu dabai miyu]. External cover title: 南敗秘語 [nannbai miyu ]. 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 mater...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 46 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/42
Title:: 破新山治亡秘語一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 破新山治亡秘語一本 [poxinshan zhiwang miyu yiben]. External cover title: 破新山開嶺?秘語一本 [poxinshan kailing miyu yiben]. Magic for a healing ceremony. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 17 folios. Chinese era name (regnal ye...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1884
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/46
Title:: 一本亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本亡秘語 [Yiben wang 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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/47
Title:: [Instructions to feed the novice for the first time after being born]
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. Instructions to feed the novice for the first time after being born: Water, rice, pork meat. This part includes protection for the case that the boy is expose...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/48
Title:: 集件天機
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 集件天機 [Jijian tianji]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, an...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 29 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/54
Title:: 尊典下卷
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 尊典下卷 [zundian xiajuan]. Clothes, blankets, mattress, mosquito nets… all tools and things need in the house for Tjaeng Daeh - deities in which the members of household belive - of the household. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1857-1917
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/55
Title:: 玉皇經中卷
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 玉皇經中卷 [Yuhuang jing zhongjuan]. Ceremony to provide three offerings for Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) in one day. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1891
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/56
Title:: 玉樞經
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 玉樞經 [yushu jing]. A scripture about the function and the merit of LeiSheng Puhua Tianzun (Celestial Worthy of the Sound of Thunder of Universal Transformation). Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 13 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/57
Title:: 金章經在頭三官經在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 金章經在頭三官經在尾 [jinzhang jing zaitou sanguan jing zaiwei]. Contains the Daoist scripture Taishanglaojun Shuo Wudou Jinzhang Shousheng Miaojing. A scripture about the function and the merit of Sanguan (the Three Officers, including Heaven, Earth and ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

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