Project / Collection: Continuing Digitisation of Cham Manuscripts in Vietnam / Subject: Genealogy / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/17/14
Title:: Protections, dreams, sleeping with wives
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes incantations used by the dignitaries for body protection when going away from home, for interpreting of deteriorating dreams, and for sleeping with their wives. 10 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; missing cover; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 10 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/22/9
Title:: Talismans for shamans
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is used by Gru Urang shamans. It includes incantations, charms and instructions for performing the rituals to remove termite nest from farming land (kadha mak katuec), to help the dead return to their ancestors (ricaow ka urang matai). 18 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads;...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/26/16
Title:: Prayers, incantations used by Cham Brahmins
Scope & Content:: Mantras, incantations, and instructions for the offering ceremonies, rituals for curing illness, exorcism. Other parts are a written poem on how the young people should live a fair, responsible life to family, society. 114 pages. Cham manuscript bound by threads; covered by Chinese paper; writ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 118 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/27/9
Title:: Incantations used by shamans
Scope & Content:: Incantations used by shamans to make harmful charms (to drive people crazy); the learning of the element of each deity (Nabi Jawet represents wood, Nabi Ahier represents fire, Nabi Hairit represents water.); offering mantras when sitting in front of a bowl of fire (daa pangin apuei); incantation...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 58 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/31/5
Title:: Purification ceremony, fortune telling, calendar calculation, medicine
Scope & Content:: Instructions for Cham calendar calculation; incantations to prevent the apparition of the ill-fated dead from harming other family's members; about age compatibility between husband and wife; fortune telling to find lost assets; some secret medicine used by shamans. 132 pages. Cham manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 136 TIFF images

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