Title of the first text: 小集求花秘語 [xiaoji qiuhua miyu ]. External cover title: 求花語壹本 [qiuhuayu yiben ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 先?二年八月中...
External cover title: 其秘天蟲前師度後師給興家 [qimi tianhuang qian shidu hou shiji xingjia]. Magic for the planting the rice ceremony ai song. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 12 folios.
External cover title: 壹本貢筵洪恩秘語 [yiben gongyan hongen miyu ]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
External cover title: 聖母伴座科 [shengmu panzuo ke ]. The description of the work of Tai Mu. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 122 folios.
Title of the first text: 授戒諸川光科 [shujie zhu chuanguang ke]. External cover title: 川光科 [chuanguang ke ]. Initiation ceremony for the ordination of the young Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 84 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清同治肆年丙寅歲春季月初三日完.
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: 帝母橋始(臺) 盤皇科在尾 盤皇歌唱 [dimu qiaotai panhuang ke zaiwei panhuang gechang ]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats, including the description of the work ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 功曹 接聖科 大獻用 [Gongcao jiesheng ke daxian yong]. Gongcao: Instructions to send the deities of Messengers to inform and invite all the deities to join the ceremony. Jiesheng an...
External cover title and title of the first text: 開山科 [kaishan ke ]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 98 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒三拾歲甲辰年八月上旬終畢.
Title of the first text: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. External cover title: 調雞科壹本 [diaoji ke yiben ]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十年己乙六月上旬終筆.
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 壹本鬼? [yiben gui?]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, thi...