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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/5/3
Title:: 一本顛倒打寨肚痛眼痛法書
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本顛倒打寨肚痛眼痛法書 [yiben diandao dazhai dutong yantong fashu]. External cover title: 壹本雜秘 [yiben zami]. Magic to resolve craziness made by the spirits (Lanten: man blah meaning possesion). Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/6/4
Title:: 晨昏救患日五會密語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 晨昏救患日五會密語 [chenhun jiuhuan riwuhui miyu]. External cover title: 情語可剎 [qingyu kecha]. Miscellaneous descriptions of visualization practices and therapist skills. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 23 folios. Chi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/8/1
Title:: 救苦說醮科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 救苦說醮科 [jiuku shuojiao ke]. External cover title: 救苦說醮 [jiuku shuojiao]. Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, ensuring the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 37 folios. Chinese e...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/8/2
Title:: 延生救苦宿啟
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 延生救苦宿啟 [yansheng jiuku suqi]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. Ceremony to ensure the salvation of the newly deceased.The magic to make the deities to...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 77 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/8/3
Title:: 法壇科醮符吏斎符吏凈壇科會聖科說醮科在尾
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 法壇科醮符吏斎符吏凈壇科會聖科說醮科在尾 [fatanke jiaofuli zhaifuli jingtanke huishengke shuojiaoke zaiwei]. External cover title: 王京坛 [wang jing tan]. Instructions for making the altar to hold offerings for the gods.Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 67 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/1
Title:: 二三宮科壹本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 二三宮科壹本 [er sangong ke yiben]. External cover title: 二宮三宮科壹本 [ergongsangongkeyiben]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1860
Extent:: 49 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/2
Title:: 斎醮秘語號法一部下卷
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 斎醮秘語號法一部下卷 [Zhaijiao miyu haofa yibu xiajuan]. Instructions about details in the rituals of retreat and offering and the ceremony that removes misfortune. Custodial histor...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1861
Extent:: 124 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/3
Title:: 雜百解諸件小秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 雜百解諸件小秘語 [za baijie zhujian xiao miyu]. External cover title: 治煞秘 [zhisha mi]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist-healing rituals, visualization practice for the host's fortune and other magic. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of origin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 118 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/4
Title:: 重集斎短亡秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 重集斎短亡秘語 [chongji zhai duanwang miyu]. External cover title: 重集斎短蜜語 [chongji zhaiduan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about the magic used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1860
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/1
Title:: 按龍秘語天機法伸斗解冤
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語天機法伸斗解冤 [Anlong miyu tianji fa shendou jieyuan]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors.First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Bas...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

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