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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/6
Title:: 大治天娘亡堂之法
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 大治天娘亡堂之法 [Dazhi tianniang wangtang zhifa]. Magic for a healing ceremony. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 15 fol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/8
Title:: 一本婚恩秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本婚恩秘語 [yiben hun'en miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals for marital problems. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 25 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year)...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/11
Title:: 壹本金語謝集雷用神昏用
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本金語謝集雷用神昏用 [yiben jinyu xieji leiyong shenhun yong]. Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/12
Title:: 隔空亡秘語一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 隔空亡秘語一本 [Gekong wang miyu yiben]. 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 prob...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/13
Title:: 會聖闡經竪旛科在中清醮土府三時
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 會聖闡經竪旛科在中清醮土府三時 [huisheng chanjing shufan ke zaizhong qingjiao tufu sanshi]. Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Bring the money from the bank to start the ceremony...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/14
Title:: 一本神目科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本神目科 [yiben shenmu ke]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1929
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/16
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 南靈科 [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 material: 1 volume of 46 folios. C...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/17
Title:: 一本初真秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本初真秘語 [yiben chuzhen miyu]. External cover title: 一本受戒天機 [yiben shoujie tianji]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of origin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1927
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/19
Title:: 一本救患金語全冊
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本救患金語全冊 [yiben jiuhuan jinyu quance]. External cover title: 救患天機金語一本 [jiuhuan tianji jinyu yiben]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘kill the insects/pest’ o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/34/21
Title:: 合婚書壹本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 合婚書壹本 [Hehun shu yiben]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mat...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1891
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

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