Title of the first text: 一本度亡喪家秘語 [yben duwang sangjia miyu ]. External cover title: 一本道家喪塲秘語 [yiben daojia sangshang miyu ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 140 folios. Date(s) cl...
Title of the first text: 正戒師傅李勝員給付除煞秘典弟子李勝傳 [zhengjie shifu li shengyuan jifu chusha midian dizi li shengchuan]. External cover title: 壹本除煞秘語 [yichen chusha miyu ]. Instructions to dispel evil spirits or disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios. Date(s) claimed...
Title of the first text: 一本受戒金語 [yiben shoujie jinyu]. External cover title: 受戒二教秘語 [shoujie erjiao miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 folios.
Title of the first text: 顛倒天機壹部 [diandao tianji yibu]. External cover title: 顛倒秘天機壹部 [diandao mi tianji yibu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 28 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
Title of the first text: 太上洞玄靈寶玉皇本行集 [taishang dongxuan lingbao yuhuang benhangji ]. External cover title: 玉皇經上卷 [yuhuangjing shang juan ]. A scripture used in the ritual, seeking grace from Yuhuang (Jade emperor). Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claime...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 化依科 [Huayi ke]. Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 108 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本大部 [yiben dabu]. External cover title: 壹本南靈大部 [yiben nanling dabu ]. 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 118 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [敕壇科] [[chitan ke]]. Text to open ceremony and set up the altar, including some songs. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 216 folios.
External cover title: 壹本引朝科 [yiben yinzhao ke ]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年六月十六日啟十九日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1927 / 1987. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...