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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/1/15
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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆肆拾五年庚子歲癸未月戊申日.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1780
Extent:: 46 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/1/16
Title:: 茭龍科破獄科共一本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 茭龍科破獄科共一本 [jiaolong ke poyu ke gongyiben]. External cover title: 茭龍破獄科 [jiaolong poyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaolong and Poyu. Jiaolong: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death r...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/1/17
Title:: 煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tablet. The...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/1/19
Title:: 一本喃靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本喃靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本大部喃靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊子年四月初二日午時. Calendar note: S...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1888-1948
Extent:: 61 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/2
Title:: 喪家度亡秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 喪家度亡秘語 [sangjia duwang miyu]. External cover title: 喪家度亡秘語一本 [sangjia duwang miyu yiben]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 130 folios. Date(s) claim...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/3
Title:: 安龍伸斗日午燈筵雷府解冤秘語共一冊
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: 安龍伸斗日午燈筵雷府解冤秘語共一冊 [anlongshendou riwudengyan leifujieyuan miyu gongyice]. Compilation of several texts: anlong, shendou and so on. Miscellaneous instruct...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1857
Extent:: 67 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/7
Title:: 一本貢筵紅樓秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本貢筵紅樓秘語 [yiben gongyan honglou miyu]. External cover title: 貢筵紅樓秘語 [gongyan honglou miyu]. Instruction of Magic to build the altars in this side and the other world for the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 148 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 75 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/8
Title:: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧同冊用朝天
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧同冊用朝天 [yiben wangmi xiangzhan tongce yongchaotian]. External cover title: 一本邙（亡）秘香棧鵉音 [yiben wangmi xiangzhan luanyin]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲辛...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1911-1971
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/13
Title:: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本 [longtong jiaojian poyu ke tongyiben]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1927-1987
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/18
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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

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