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: 一本信書 [yiben xinshu]. History of the Yao in Laos and their customs and manners. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 120 folios. Date(s) cl...
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: 救一本救苦經 [jiu yiben jiukujing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Title of the first text: 紅樓半座科 [honglou banzuo ke]. External cover title: 一本紅樓判座科 [yiben honglou banzuo ke]. Compilation of two texts: Hong lou and Pan zuo. Hong lou: Magic to make the red and white houses of the mother of the earth. It also makes the altars into money, fruit, rice-fields, etc...
Title of the first text: 開山科 [kaishan ke ]. External cover title: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲子年八月初八日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1924 / 1984...
External cover title and title of the first text: 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript:...
Title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. External cover title: 一本按龍科在頭 小南靈在尾 [yiben anlongke zaitou xiaonanling zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: Anlong and Xiao nanling. Anlong:Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Xiao Nanling:Ceremony for seeing off the newly deceas...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本宿啟科 [yiben suqi ke ]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the All the Living Creatures. Extent and format of or...
Title of the first text: 喃相科 受戒道師皈依同本 [nanxiang ke shoujie daoshi guiyi tongben]. External cover title: 喃相科 受戒皈依道師在尾 [nanxiang ke shoujie guiyi daoshi zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: nanxiang and shoujie. Nanxiang: Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructi...
Title of the first text: 喪家書科 送終一夜共燈文科 [sangjiashu ke songzhong yiye gongdengwen ke ]. External cover title: 送終一夜 燈文喪家同一本 [songzhong yiye dengwen sangjia tongyiben ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript:...
Title of the first text: 一冊符命式 一宗大煉小煉共本 [yibe fuming shi yizong dalian xiaolian gongben ]. External cover title: 符命式 符 [fuming shi fu ]. Compilation of spells and talismans which seem to be used in the ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲申年正月初五日巳時. Calendar note: Stem-branches syst...