External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 咸豐二年壬子歲次四月十一日開筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 先主來請聖之法 [Xianzhu lai qingsheng zhi fa]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, ceremony in Taoist rituals or funerals. Custodial history: Private col...
External cover title and 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 ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tabl...
Title of the first text: 大斎 清醮 授戒同一本秘語 [dazhai qingjiao shoujie tongyibenmiyu]. External cover title: 大斎 清醮 初真 授戒同一本秘語 [dazhai qingjiao chuzhen shoujie tongyibenmiyu]. Instructions about ceremony in the ritual for the deceased, including the retreat, the offering and the ritual of receiving Ch...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸神秘語總在內也 [Zhushen miyu zongzainei ye]. Instructions about ceremony in rituals for the deceased, and some exorcistic healing rituals. Custodial history: Private collection....
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大治天娘亡堂秘語 [yiben dazhi tianniang wangtang miyu]. Ceremony for the salvation of the newly deceased female members of the family. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Chinese era...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本破獄龍重茭簡科 [Yiben poyu longzhong jiaojian ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let them know that the sec...
External cover title and title of the first text: 度人經 [duren jing]. Money/bribes for resolving the mistakes made by the male Ancestors during their lifetime. The payments are aimed to make the moon, the sun, stars, forget any past grievance. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and f...
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: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke.] Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
Title of the first text: 新恩科一本 [xin'en ke yiben]. External cover title: 一本初真科 [yiben chuzhen ke]. 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 original materi...