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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/10
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南靈科 [Nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private colle...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/11
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 29 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 道光十八年.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 31 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/14
Title:: 煉度科
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: 煉度科 [liandu ke.] Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/15
Title:: 一本煉度科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本煉度科 [Yiben liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/16
Title:: [Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has does not contain a formal title on either the outer cover of the manuscript or the internal cover of the first text. Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/17
Title:: 符命式一宗大煉小煉共本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 符命式一宗大煉小煉共本 [Fuming shi yizong dalian xiaolian gongben]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the se...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/18
Title:: 急中救患祈嗣按龍伸斗解冤共一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 急中救患祈嗣按龍伸斗解冤共一本 [Jizhong jiuhuan qisi anlong shendou jieyuan]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 58 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/30
Title:: 謝境雷水壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 謝境雷水壹本 [xiejing leishui yiben]. Compilation of three texts: Xie Jing: Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt; (Xie) Lei:Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thund...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1910
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/39
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:: 20th century
Extent:: 57 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/28/46
Title:: [Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has does not contain a formal title on either the outer cover of the manuscript or the internal cover of the first text. Compilation of documents used in the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

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