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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/10
Title:: 大亡秘語
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: 大亡秘語 [dawang 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 p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 11 Nov 1899
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/11
Title:: 按龍秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語 [Anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/21
Title:: 南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本南傳科 [yiben nanchuan 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: 甲辰年六月十五日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches sy...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1844-1904
Extent:: 47 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/23
Title:: 関告安龍科
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: 関告安龍科 [guangao anlong ke]. Guangao:Text to open the ceremony; Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1845
Extent:: 33 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/28
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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 46 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 24 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/29
Title:: 一本按龍
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本按龍 [yiben anlong]. External cover title: 一本按龍科一本小南靈 [yiben anlong ke yiben xiao nanling ]. Compilation of two texts: Anlong and Xiao nanling. Anlong:Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Xiao Nanling:Ceremony for seeing off the newly deceased. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1870-1930
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/31
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 一本迓王 [yiben yawang ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 70 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國四十二年三月二十三日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 6 May 1953
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/37/36
Title:: 一本齋亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本齋亡秘語 [Yiben zhaiwang 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...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19 Aug 1891
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/6
Title:: 茭簡破獄科
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: 茭簡破獄科 [jiaojianpoyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: iaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 9 Aug 1914
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/38/7
Title:: 南昌煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 30 Nov 1893
Extent:: 35 TIFF images

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