External cover title and title of the first text: 一本神目科 [yiben shenmu ke]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗科 [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 21 foli...
External cover title and title of the first text: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. 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 material: 1 volume of 46 folios. C...
Title of the first text: 一本初真秘語 [yiben chuzhen miyu]. External cover title: 一本受戒天機 [yiben shoujie tianji]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of origin...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸秘語用早晚 [Zhu miyu yong zaowan]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
Title of the first text: 一本救患金語全冊 [yiben jiuhuan jinyu quance]. External cover title: 救患天機金語一本 [jiuhuan tianji jinyu yiben]. 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’ o...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本大斎秘語老君天機 [Yiben dazhai miyu laojun tianji]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, visualization practices, and ritual performance. Custodial histo...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 合婚書壹本 [Hehun shu yiben]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mat...
The collection preserved at Grishashvili Library Museum
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following: private archive of Ioseb Grishashvili, rare and unique bibliographic editions, urban folklore, playbills, handwritten books, newspapers etc. The collections are displayed in showrooms and stored in repositories. The Georgian writer and scientist – Ioseb Gr...
This collection contains correspondences, records, photographs of IFI founders, leaders and members. Custodial history: Current custodian is the Bishop Frank Mosher Library of St. Andrews Theological Seminary. This material has been kept in this archive at least since the middle of the 20th cen...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Cebuano, Chinese, English, French, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Iloko, Latin, Not applicable, Pangasinan, Spanish, and Tagalog