External cover title: 一本命請秘語 [yiben mingqing miyu]. Libretto about many love stories. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 甲寅年六月二十一日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1794 / 1854. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 134 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本天師戒度科 [yiben tianshi jiedu ke]. External cover title: 一本披簪科 [yiben pizan ke]. Instructions to teach the boy. Moral rules to follow in order to behave like a gentleman/scholar. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 76 folios. Date(s) claimed in the man...
Title of the first text: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大斎南靈 [dazhai nanling]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 120 folios. Date(s) claimed...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救患科 [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 ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 十方懺悔 [shifang chanhui]. Ceremony for releasing the souls from suffering and leaving the living people Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
Title of the first text: 判座科 [panzuo ke ]. External cover title: 帝母半(判)座科 [dimu panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國二十一年辛未歲啟壬申歲終. Calendar note: Started and completed in different years. Extent and format of original mater...
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: 盤黃歌書一本 [panhuang geshu yiben]. Libretto about the merits of Panhuang. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 folios. Date(s) claimed in t...
Title of the first text: 道門諸式一本書 [daomen zhushi yiben shu]. External cover title: 道門式 [daomen shi]. Miscellaneous instructions about ceremonies and the document templates for Daoist rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇號庚年.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 讚才樓科 [Zan cailou ke]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. This spirit-house is brought out of the village ...
External cover title: 諸雜秘密全本 [zhuza mimi quanben ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 86 folios.