Title of the first text: 南昌煉度科終 [nanchang liandu ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丙辰歲十一月二十一日抄完.
Title of the first text: 天師戒度科 [tianshi jiedu ke]. External cover title: 天師戒度 戒道關告科 [tianshi jiedu jiedao guangao ke ]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸卯年夏月中旬抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two pl...
Title of the first text: 道門書式 [daomen shushi]. External cover title: 天師戒度科 [tianshi jiedu ke]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天子換朝甲子年六月二十九日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1804 /...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [宿啟科] [[suqi ke]]. Ceremony to announce the gods in advance (namely Suqi) as the preparation period of the ritual for the longevity of the hosts. Extent and format of orig...
External cover title: 一本斎符吏科 [yiben zhaifuli ke ]. Instruction for summoning the spell officials. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios.
External cover title: 重集淨壇科 [chongji jingtan ke ]. Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office for the deities’). They make the spirit side of the altars clean and beautiful Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios.
Title of the first text: 道門諸榜語 [daomen zhubang yu]. External cover title: 道門諸榜式 [daomen zhubangshi]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony and worship them. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 嘉慶甲戌年二月二十八日.
External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡 破獄 讚才樓科 [jiaojian poyu zancailou ke]. Compilation of three texts: Jiao jian, Po yu, Zan cai lou. Jiao jian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is ta...
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: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second de...
External cover title: 諸貝欠? 天機金語 [zhu ?tianji miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions to resolve problems caused by deaths in a bad date. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.