External cover title and title of the first text: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲己未年壬甲腨甲寅旬越至壬甲日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1919 / 1979. Extent...
Title of the first text: 一本貢筵救患洪樓科 [yiben gongyan jiuhuan honglong ke]. External cover title: 一本救患科 [yiben 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 ...
Title of the first text: 一本判座科 [yiben panzuo ke]. External cover title: 判座科 [panzuo ke]. The description of the work "flowers" of Tai Mu and instructions to build an ‘earth bridge’ for Tei Mu. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁亥年未月巳酉腨甲寅旬越至甲寅日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本授械(戒)川光科 [yiben shoujie chuanguang ke]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰年五月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1916 / 1976. ...
Title of the first text: 師公書式 [shigongshushi]. External cover title: 師公式 [shigongshi]. Miscellaneous manual used by Daoist "Shigong". Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 132 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐壬子年二月中旬.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大齋良緣秘語 [yiben dazhai liangyuan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲壬子年夷則月壬午腨甲戌旬越至癸未日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 /...
Title of the first text: 壹本日午燈筵安龍化衣(依)秘語 [yiben riwu dengyan anlong huayi miyu]. External cover title: 日午燈筵謝墓安龍化衣(依) [riwu dengyan xiemu anlong huayi]. Compilation of several texts: riwu dengyan, anlong and huayi. Riwu dengyan: Chanting to invite the deities into the house/altar; Anlong: Instr...
Title of the first text: 又滅天炎痘紅痢白痢之法 [you mietian yandou hongli baili zhifa ]. External cover title: 又論大整村滅炎痘紅痢白痢法 [youlun dazhengcun mie yandou hongli baili fa]. Miscellaneous instructions about dealing with diseases, including acne, "hongli" and "baili". Extent and format of original materi...
Title of the first text: 大齋先天秘語一部 [dazhai xiantian miyu yibu]. External cover title: 清醮大齋秘語 [qingjiao dazhai miyu ]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to occupy seats in the altars. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 202...
Title of the first text: 一本雜謝秘語 [yiben zaxie miyu]. External cover title: 諸雜謝秘一本 [zhuza xiemi yiben]. Instructions about the ceremony in the ritual of offering. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲申年九月廿五日申時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1824 /...