Title of the first text: 玉皇經中卷 [yuhuang jing zhongjuan]. External cover title: 玉皇經 [yuhuang jing ]. Ceremony to provide three offerings for Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) in one day. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 10 folios. Chinese era na...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 16 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
External cover title and title of the first text: 啟師破獄科 [qishi poyu ke]. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本招兵 [Yiben zhaobing]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is...
Title of the first text: 亡故大敗秘語 [wanggu dabai miyu]. External cover title: 南敗秘語 [nannbai miyu ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mater...
External cover title and title of the first text: 金章經在頭三官經在尾 [jinzhang jing zaitou sanguan jing zaiwei]. Contains the Daoist scripture Taishanglaojun Shuo Wudou Jinzhang Shousheng Miaojing. A scripture about the function and the merit of Sanguan (the Three Officers, including Heaven, Earth and ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 14 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
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: 招兵 [zhao bing.] Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken ...
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: 一本按龍秘語 [yiben anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
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: 一本伸科 [yiben shen ke.] First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Custo...