External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦說醮科 [jiuku shuojiao ke ]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a petition to heaven, ensuring the fortune of the host. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙巳年六月七日申時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cyc...
Title of the first text: 一本化依小顆(科) [yiben huayi xiaoke ]. External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke ]. Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬戌年八月中旬十七日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1922 / 1982. ...
External cover title: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰䚴正月初三日巳時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: ...
External cover title: 一本盤皇接聖科 [yiben panhuang jiesheng ke ]. Instruction to direct all Celestial deities invited to the ceremony to occupy their seats at the main altar. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年八月十六日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dat...
Title of the first text: 通用科 [tongyong ke ]. External cover title: 一本通用科 [yiben tongyong ke ]. A manual about instructions and verses used and chanted in the rituals for Daoist priests. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰年十二月二十四日申時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle...
Title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. External cover title: 壹本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊午年六月初五日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1918 / 1978....
Title of the first text: 小喃靈科一本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. External cover title: 小喃靈科壹本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 清?皇二年八月...
Title of the first text: 一冊送鬼科 [yice songgui ke ]. External cover title: 壹本送聖科 [yiben songsheng ke ]. Offering flowers and wine, etc. several times and dispatching the gods sincerely at the end. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年七月初三日申時終筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title: 一本集謝雷王境求財科 [yiben jixie leiwang jing qiucai ke ]. Ceremony to resolve the problems with deities of hunters, rivers and armies. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬戌年九月初八日未時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1922 / 1982. Ext...
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: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format ...