Title of the first text: 大喃靈科 [da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大部喃靈科 [dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios. Date(s) claime...
Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲己酉年夷則庚午腨甲辰旬. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1909 / 196...
Title of the first text: 釋服祝從讃車科 [shifu zhucong zanche ke]. External cover title: 一本釋服讃車從人科 [yiben shifu zanche congren ke]. Ceremony of giving the deceased parents or husbands and wives some “people”, so that the death can order "servants" in the heavens. Besides, opening the light for the Ba...
Title of the first text: 一本安龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲癸未年午月甲辰腨甲寅旬越至壬戌日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1883 / 1...
Title of the first text: 喪家書科 送終一夜共燈文科 [sangjiashu ke songzhong yiye gongdengwen ke ]. External cover title: 送終一夜 燈文喪家同一本 [songzhong yiye dengwen sangjia tongyiben ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript:...
Title of the first text: 一冊按龍科 [yice anlong ke ]. External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲辰年大呂龍頭冬. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1904 / 1964...
Title of the first text: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke]. External cover title: 交簡破獄科 [jiaojian poyu ke]. 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 ...
Title of the first text: 一本喪家秘語 [yiben sangjia miyu]. External cover title: 喪事一宵夜 [sangshi yi xiaoye ]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript...
Title of the first text: 茭龍科在頭 下堂煉度科 迓王科在中 重集啟師破獄科在尾 [jiaolong ke zaitou xiatang liandu ke yawang ke zaizhong chongqi qishi poyu ke zaiwei ]. External cover title: 茭簡 煉度 迓王 破獄科全本 [jiaojian liandu yawang poyu ke quanben]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Ke...
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: 一本安龍 [yiben anlong]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s) ...