Title of the first text: 壹冊大部天機金語 [yice dabu tianji jinyu]. External cover title: 壹本天亡天機秘語 [yiben tianwang tianji miyu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original ma...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語 一本救患秘 [Anlong miyu yiben jiuhuan mi]. Compilation of two texts: An long and jiu huan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Jiu huan: Th...
Title of the first text: 一本小百秘語 [yiben xiaobai miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉秘語金語 [huangquan miyu jinyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
Title of the first text: 一本亡秘朝天金語 [yiben wang mi chaotian jinyu]. External cover title: 一本亡秘語 [yiben wang 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. Custodial history: Pr...
Title of the first text: 早晚救患秘語 [zaowan jiuhuan miyu]. External cover title: 三宮科 [sangong ke]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘kill the insects/pest’ of the flowers, that is to prot...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本小煉式 [Yiben xiaolian shi]. Compilation of spells used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vo...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 血湖經 [Xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted the River...
[Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased]
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This manuscript has does not contain a formal title on either the outer cover of the manuscript or the internal cover of the first text. Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 煉度科 [Liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 中卷符命式 [Zhongjuan fuming shi]. Compilation of spells which seem to be used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of orig...
