Title of the first text: 化依科小南靈小本一部 [huayi ke xiaonanling xiaoben yibu]. External cover title: 化依科小南靈共一本 [huayi ke xiaonanling gong yiben]. Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, while making offerings for the gods both from heavens and hells. Custodial history: Private collection. Exte...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawangke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本救患科 [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 same time. “This is you, this is your story, ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本紅樓判座科 [yiben honglou panzuo ke]. Compilation of two texts: Hong lou and Pan zuo. Hong lou: Magic to make the red and white houses of the mother of the earth. It also makes the altars into money, fruit, rice-fields, etc.; meals and jade maidens...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本伸斗科 [yiben shendou ke]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of...
Title of the first text: 壹本三朝不長?科 [yiben sanchao ? ke]. External cover title: 壹本禮境科 [yiben lijing ke ]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 53 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲已巳年七月三十日.
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: 壹本道意玉京盟真救苦貢王斎意 [yiben daoyi yujing mengzhen jiuku gongwang zhaiyi.] Ceremony to make a retreat with the gods, ensuring the salvation of the deceased. Cust...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 重集旛戎在尾 [yawang ke chongji fanrong zaiwei]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 35 folios. Chine...
External cover title and title of the first text: 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 same time. “This is you, this is your story, ...
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 in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cann...