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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/36
Title:: 一本說醮科
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚戌歲十月十五日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1850 / 1910...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1850-1910
Extent:: 49 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/41
Title:: 伸斗按龍解冤救患秘語一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤救患秘語一本 [shendou anlong jieyuan jiuhuan miyu yiben ]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 27 Apr 1900
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/29/42
Title:: 一本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [Yiben qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20 Jan 1914
Extent:: 102 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30
Title:: Anonymous Collector 30
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 7 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/30/1 to EAP1126/1/30/7. 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:: 1800-1970
Extent:: 336 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30/1
Title:: 兇路斎亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 兇路斎亡秘語 [xionglu zhaiwang 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 the living. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛亥年十一月十九日未時抄完. Ca...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1851-1911
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30/2
Title:: 清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬申年五月十九日立. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1872 / 1932. Ext...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1872-1932
Extent:: 77 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30/4
Title:: 大亡天娘齋醮亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 大亡天娘齋醮亡秘語 [dawang tianniang zhaijiao 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 the living. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30/5
Title:: 一本小百解
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本小百解 [yiben xiao baijie]. External cover title: 一本黃泉 [yiben huangquan]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao man the Deities of the Elders. Three types of magic inside. Date(...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1886-1946
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/30/7
Title:: 一本洪恩貢延天機秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本洪恩貢延天機秘語 [yiben hong'en gongyan tianji miyu]. External cover title: 洪恩秘語貢延紅樓同用 [hong'en miyu gongyan honglou tongyong]. Compilation of three texts: Gong yan, Hong en Hong lou. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. Th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20 Oct 1970
Extent:: 83 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/31
Title:: Anonymous Collector 31
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 38 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/31/1 to EAP1126/1/31/38. 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:: 1782-1984
Extent:: 1825 TIFF images

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