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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39
Title:: Anonymous Collector 39
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 30 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/39/1 to EAP1126/1/39/30. 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:: 1770-1967
Extent:: 1320 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/1
Title:: 延生土府貢王救苦季烈兇路神目科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 延生土府貢王救苦季烈兇路神目科 [yansheng tufu gongwang jiuku jilie xionglu shenmu ke]. External cover title: 延生土府貢王目 [yansheng tufu gongwang mu]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. Ceremony t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 17 Jun 1901
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/3
Title:: 貢延洪恩秘語一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 貢延洪恩秘語一本 [gongyan honglou miyu yiben]. 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. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/4
Title:: 清醮秘語一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 清醮秘語一本 [Qingjiao miyu yiben]. 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:: 21 Nov 1904
Extent:: 101 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/5
Title:: 受戒秘語一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 受戒秘語一本 [Shoujie miyu yiben]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘gi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 4 Mar 1958
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/6
Title:: 一本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚寅年十二月初四抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Tw...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1770-1830
Extent:: 70 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/7
Title:: 良緣天機
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 良緣天機 [liangyuan tianji]. External cover title: 大齋天機一卷 [dazhai tianji yijuan]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreates the whole Wo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 22 Feb 1902
Extent:: 83 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/9
Title:: 一冊貢延紅樓秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一冊貢延紅樓秘語 [yice gongyan honglou miyu]. 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. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and pa...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 15 Jan 1922
Extent:: 49 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/12
Title:: 伸斗按龍秘語
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: 伸斗按龍秘語 [shendou anlong miyu]. Anlong: Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Shendou: First ceremony for th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 15 Feb 1847-2 Feb 1848
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/13
Title:: 齋亡秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 齋亡秘語 [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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 12 Feb 1888-30 Jan 1889
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

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