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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/41/14
Title:: 壹本金語金靈犯鬼天娘？堂小見投朐秘
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本金語金靈犯鬼天娘？堂小見投朐秘 [Yiben jinyu jinling fangui tianniang ?tang xiaojian touqu mi]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Inclu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 4 Mar 1911
Extent:: 18 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/41/23
Title:: 壹按龍伸斗秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹按龍伸斗秘語 [Yi anlong shendou miyu]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1835-1895
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/41/32
Title:: 壹冊煉度科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹冊煉度科 [yice liandu ke ]. External cover title: 一本破獄茭簡煉度科 [yiben poyu jiaojian liandu ke]. Instructions for sending a Messenger-Dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased, imploring the gods - assistance to the Original Masters - to break the gates of the Purgatory...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 29 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/41/39
Title:: [化依讚材樓科]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [化依讚材樓科] [[huayi zancailou ke ]]. Compilation of two texts: Huayi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Zancailou: ope...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 12 Aug 1931
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/42/15
Title:: 喪家天機一部
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 喪家天機一部 [sangjia tianji yibu ]. External cover title: 度亡天機一部 [duwang tianji yibu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1817-1877
Extent:: 55 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/42/29
Title:: 一本謝皇化依科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本謝皇化依科 [yiben xiehuang huayi ke]. External cover title: 一本謝王化依拔亡 [yiben xiewang huayi bawang]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年六月二十六.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 17 Aug 2017
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/42/38
Title:: 救一本救苦經
Scope & Content:: 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: 救一本救苦經 [jiu yiben jiukujing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1935-23 Jan 1936
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/43/1
Title:: 迓王科一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十七年丁未歲仲呂月完筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 12 Jul 1847-10 Aug 1847
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/43/5
Title:: 桉龍密語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 桉龍密語 [anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 29 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/43/7
Title:: 喃相白文茭簡破獄豎幡從人讚材樓共一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 喃相白文茭簡破獄豎幡從人讚材樓共一本 [nanxiang baiwen jiaojian poyu shufan congren zancailou gong yiben]. External cover title: 一本喃相從人破獄茭簡讚才樓煉度科 [yiben nanxiang congren poyu jiaojian zancailou liandu ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842-1843
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

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