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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/6
Title:: 按龍救患秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 按龍救患秘語 [anlong jiuhuan miyu ]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves； Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙子年七月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-b...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1936-1996
Extent:: 59 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/12
Title:: 一本治邙秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本治邙秘語 [yiben zhiwang miyu ]. External cover title: 邙秘語 [wang miyu]. Magic for a healing ceremony and instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁亥年寅月癸未腨甲午旬越至丙申日. Calendar...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1887-1947
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/17
Title:: 安龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙未年三月初一日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1895 / 1955. Extent and format of origina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1895-1955
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/23
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: 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: 皇上五年癸丑歲六月十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1793 / 1853...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1793-1853
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/24
Title:: 一本交（茭）簡科破獄科
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 一本交（茭）簡科破獄科 [yiben jiaojian ke poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/28
Title:: 讚車材樓科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 讚車材樓科 [zan che cailou ke ]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house and car of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙未歲卯月乙未...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: Apr 2015
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/32
Title:: 大部南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 大部南靈科 [dabu nanling ke ]. External cover title: 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 102 folios. Date(s) claimed...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 31 Mar 2015
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/5/34
Title:: 度煉科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 度煉科 [dulian ke ]. External cover title: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manus...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 22 Dec 1815
Extent:: 22 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/10
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸丑年十二月二十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: T...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1853-1913
Extent:: 63 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/6/13
Title:: 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: 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 62 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

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