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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/22
Title:: 清醮秘語壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮秘語壹本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 47 folios. C...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 49 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/23
Title:: 一本黃泉金語天機
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本黃泉金語天機 [Yiben huangquan jinyu tianji]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/39
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:: 20th century
Extent:: 57 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/42
Title:: 一本大斎良綠金語
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: 一本大斎良綠金語 [yiben dazhai lianglv jinyu.] Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 196 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/43
Title:: 一本小集天機秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本小集天機秘語 [Yiben xiaoji tianji miyu]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29
Title:: Anonymous Collector 29
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 43 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/29/1 to EAP791/1/29/43. 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:: 1779-1936
Extent:: 1482 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/3
Title:: 土府延生宿啟科全本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 土府延生宿啟科全本 [tufu yansheng suqi ke quanben]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the All the Living Creatures. Cust...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/5
Title:: 一本說醮飛章送聖同一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本說醮飛章送聖同一本 [yiben shuojiao feizhang songsheng tong yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/9
Title:: 貢延洪恩秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 貢延洪恩秘語 [Gongyan hong'enmi]. Compilation of two texts: Gong yan and Hong en. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The alt...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 70 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/11
Title:: 一本救經
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: 一本救經 [yiben jiujing.] A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the ba...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1933
Extent:: 11 TIFF images

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