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: 一本初真披簪開解科 [yiben chuzhen pizan kaijie ke ]. Pizan:T he instructions to teach the boy. The ritual expert translates this book for the boy from formal to ver...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [Qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲五年丙...
External cover title and title of the first text: 受戒川光科一本 [shoujie chuanguang ke yiben]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Chuanguang: Librettos for use in the rituals for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 86 folio...
External cover title and title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 46 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [受戒秘語] [[shoujie miyu ]]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original materi...
External cover title and title of the first text: 大齋亡秘一本 [dazhai wangmi yiben ]. Miscellaneous instructions about the magic used in the ritual for the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 126 folios.
External cover title: 受戒秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes magic.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 送初絕亡故之法 [Songchujue wanggu zhifa]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist-healing ritual and moral instruction for the newly deceased. Extent and format of original materi...
External cover title and title of the first text: 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 death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in t...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大南靈 [yiben dananling ]. 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 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...