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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/28
Title:: 壹本煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本煉度科 [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 of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancesto...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/2
Title:: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科 [yiben poyu liandu jiaolong ke]. Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Jiaojian...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/3
Title:: 度亡天機一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 度亡天機一本 [duwang tianji yiben]. 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 the living. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and form...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/4
Title:: 喪家秘語一部
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家秘語一部 [Sangjia miyu yibu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Ext...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/5
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 instructions on the ritual payments for the dead so they ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 7 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/6
Title:: 隔空亡秘一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 隔空亡秘一本 [Gekong wang mi yiben]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes instructions on the ritual payments for the dead so...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1650
Extent:: 7 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/9
Title:: 一本亡秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本亡秘語 [yiben wang miyu]. External cover title: 一本小百解秘語天機 [yiben xiao baijie miyu tianji]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/20
Title:: 血湖經
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: 血湖經. [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 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 9 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/23
Title:: 大部召靈
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 大部召靈 [dabu zhaoling]. External cover title: 一本南靈科 [yiben 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 collection. Extent and format of original materia...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 71 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/36
Title:: 按龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 15 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十四年七月完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

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