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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/25
Title:: 小雜秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 小雜秘語 [xiaoza miyu]. External cover title: 一本小雜秘語 [yiben xiaoza miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 28 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬戌年皇春月上旬十五日...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1802-1862
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/26
Title:: 一本削門喪家秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本削門喪家秘語 [yiben xuemen sangjia miyu]. External cover title: 喪家秘語 [sangjia miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Extent and format of origina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1846-1906
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/27
Title:: 壹本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 龍飛元年癸丑歲七月初三完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branch...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1793-1853
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/28
Title:: 授械（戒）秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 授械（戒）秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Magic for the ordination disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes.’ Extent and f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 9 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/29
Title:: 秘語文武共冊
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 秘語文武共冊 [miyu wenwu gongce]. Magic for the ordination of disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙辰年無射月上旬終筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1844 / 1904. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1844-1904
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/30
Title:: 論白咒
Scope & Content:: 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: 論白咒 [lun baizhou]. Various spells for killing animals, daily activities and reading scriptures. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 fol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 18 Jul 1911
Extent:: 13 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/31
Title:: 貢筵洪恩秘語共一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 貢筵洪恩秘語共一本 [gongyan hong'en miyu gong yiben]. External cover title: 貢筵洪恩秘語 [gongyan hong'en miyu]. Compilation of two texts: Gong yan and Hong en. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The altars are transformed into we...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 26 Dec 1892
Extent:: 82 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/32
Title:: 一本新恩開經科滿月開解在尾
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本新恩開經科滿月開解在尾 [yiben xin'en kaijing ke manyue kaijie zaiwei] [Early summer 1849]. External cover title: 初真科 [chuzhen ke ] [Early summer 1849]. Opening ceremony small altar sing tan for the ordination tjai sei. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Ex...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1849
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/33
Title:: 靝師械（戒）度披簪科開解在尾
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 靝師械（戒）度披簪科開解在尾 [tianshi jiedu pizan ke kaijie zaiwei]. External cover title: 披簪科 [pizan ke]. Pizan: The instructions to teach the boy. The ritual expert translates this book for the boy from formal to vernacular. Moral rules to follow in order to behave like a gentlem...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1840
Extent:: 55 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/34
Title:: 金章經壹本
Scope & Content:: 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: 金章經壹本 [jinzhangjing yiben]. Manuscript of the Daoist scripture Taishanglaojun Shuo Wudou Jinzhang Shousheng Miaojing. Extent and format of original materi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 11 Jul 1854
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

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