External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩秘語 [hong'en miyu]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 63 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲?庚寅年五月初八日抄.
Title of the first text: 一本清醮天機金語全冊 [yiben qingjiao tianji jinyu quance]. External cover title: 清醮金語天機一本 [qingjiao jinyu tianji yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food.. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This project offers a representative sample of 50 Arabic manuscripts from the Infa Yattara Family Library currently housed in a private facility in Bamako, Mali. It consists of various works in the Islamic sciences, literature, medicine, Qur’an, historical documents as well as treatises in esote...
A treatise on hiddent things including discussion of the jinn (spirits) and magic squares. Page size (cm) (width and height): 11.5 x 16.5; Text box size (cm): n/a; Lines per page: n/a. Condition: water staining; no text loss Marginal annotation in different hand; brown ink. Complete. Callig...
This text consists of writings discussing one of God's names, "Oh Answerer" and describes the ways the letters can be used for talismanic purposes. There is also mention connections to various angels in letter magic. The texts ends with a magic square. Page size (cm) (width and height): 11.5 x ...
The predecessor of the current Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Sutras and Scripts came into existence in 1921, was renamed as Institutes of Sciences in 1930, Institute of Sciences and Education in 1957, and Academy of Sciences in 1960. Its scholars have always paid attention to t...