Subject: Death / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/46
Title:: 一本亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本亡秘語 [Yiben wang miyu]. 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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/23/59
Title:: 救苦經
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 14 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/1
Title:: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾 [yiben fuming shi dalian zaitou xiaolian zaiwei]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they ha...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/14
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [Yiben yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/15
Title:: 救苦貢王宿啟科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救苦貢王宿啟科 [Jiuku gongwang suqi ke]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead.The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a mag...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/17
Title:: 化依促人樓材科
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: 化依促人樓材科. [huayi curen loucai ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Instructions to teach the butl...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 53 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/19
Title:: 一本按龍秘語
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: 一本按龍秘語 [yiben anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 57 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/27
Title:: 教患燈延秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 教患燈延秘語 [Jiaohuan dengyan miyu]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1875
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/35
Title:: 喪家式試？文字對
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 喪家式試？文字對 [sangjia shishi wenzi dui]. External cover title: 喪家文字 [sangjiawenzi ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volum...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1965
Extent:: 41 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/37
Title:: 竪旛茭簡破獄科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 竪旛茭簡破獄科 [shufan jiaojian poyu ke]. Compilation of three texts: Lifan, Jiaojian and Poyu. Lifan: Preparations for the banner yui woung pang outside the house. Secondary death ritual. This represents the hand of the Jade Emperor who is helping to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1848
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Search