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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/27
Title:: 南昌大煉科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 南昌大煉科 [nanchang dalian ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last part. They are bathed with water. In the last part of this ceremony, they are ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 29 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/32
Title:: 化依科壹本一冊從人科在中讃樓科在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科壹本一冊從人科在中讃樓科在尾 [huayi ke yiben yice congren ke zaizhong zanlou ke zaiwei]. Compilation of three texts: Hua yi, Cong ren, and Zan (cai)lou. Hua yi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Cong...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1891
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/35
Title:: 一本判座賀樓大橋臺科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本判座賀樓大橋臺科 [yiben panzuo helou daqiaotai ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. It contains instructions so this house has everything in the three levels. It says w...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1890
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/39
Title:: 一本血湖經
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本血湖經 [Yiben xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 13 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/29/40
Title:: 一本師小煉？書
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本師小煉？書 [Yibenshixiaolian?shu]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 11 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/30/2
Title:: 南靈一本科
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: 南靈一本科 [nanling yibenke.] Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodia...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1883
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/30/3
Title:: 迓王科一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十五年巳丑歲七月中旬終筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1889
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/30/4
Title:: 化依沐浴科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 化依沐浴科 [Huayi muyu ke]. Instructions for bathing the deceased and making the paper clothes for them. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/30/6
Title:: 救患秘語
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: 救患秘語. [jiuhuan miyu]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the ba...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/30/12
Title:: 度亡天機一夜送終三夜秘共一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 度亡天機一夜送終三夜秘共一本 [duwang tianji yiye songzhong sanye mi gong yiben]. External cover title: 送終三夜秘語 [songzhong sanye 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 th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1882
Extent:: 50 TIFF images

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