External cover title and title of the first text: 玉皇下卷 [yuhuang xiajuan]. Ceremony to provide three offerings for Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) in one day. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 乾隆四十四年臘月二...
External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科壹本一冊從人科在中讃樓科在尾 [huayi ke yiben yice congren ke zaizhong zanlou ke zaiwei]. Compilation of three texts: Hua yi, Cong ren, and Zan (cai)lou. Hua yi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Cong...
Title of the first text: 雜良通書 [zaliang tong shu]. External cover title: 通書雜錄 [tongshu zalu]. A concise encyclopedia of classifications that provides the technical knowledge that ordinary people need in their daily lives. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original ma...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小橋台科壹本 [xiao qiaotai ke yiben]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 27 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒五年六月十二日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本判座賀樓大橋臺科 [yiben panzuo helou daqiaotai ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. It contains instructions so this house has everything in the three levels. It says w...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 度人道場科 [Duren daochang ke]. Instructions to cleansing the body of the novice (cleanse the past mistakes). A purification ritual so he can start the ritual ‘cleansed.’. Cust...
External cover title and title of the first text: 玉樞經 [yushu jing]. A scripture about the function and the merit of LeiSheng Puhua Tianzun (Celestial Worthy of the Sound of Thunder of Universal Transformation). Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 寶?短秘語存冊 [Bao duan miyu cunce]. Miscellaneous descriptions of the exorcist healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material:...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本血湖經 [Yiben xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted t...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本師小煉?書 [Yibenshixiaolian?shu]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last p...