External cover title and title of the first text: 接聖大獻科 [jiesheng daxian ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar and provide an offering for the gods, with a common form. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 功曹唱 師公意 [gongcao chang shigong yi ]. Instructions to send the deities of messengers to inform and invite all the deities to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太...
External cover title and title of the first text: 師公救患科 [shigong jiuhuan ke ]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, this is your stor...
External cover title and title of the first text: 開山科 [kaishan ke ]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 授械(戒)秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁酉年晨月甲申旬甲寅腨至丙戌日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
Title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. External cover title: 齋醮良緣秘語 [zhaijiao liangyuan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 214 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscri...
Title of the first text: 帝母大會洪供恩秘語壹本 [dimu dahui honggongen miyu yiben ]. External cover title: 大會洪恩秘語 [dahui hongen miyu ]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 134 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒...
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: 淨壇 二宮 三宮科 [jingtan ergong sangong ke ]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. ...
Title of the first text: 法書 [fashu ]. External cover title: 手簡法戔 [shoujian fajian ]. Instruction about dispeling the illness or disasters, like a magic manual for Daoist. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆五拾壹年丙午歲十二月初四.
This collection contains 24 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/6/1 to EAP1126/1/6/24. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.