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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/4
Title:: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛促人讃材樓斎醮共一本黃文廣號
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛促人讃材樓斎醮共一本黃文廣號 [Nanxiangbaiwen jiaojianke poyuke shufan curen zancailou zhaijiao gongyiben huangwenguanghao]. Instructions for sending the messenger drag...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 107 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/14
Title:: 度亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 度亡秘語 [Duwang 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 for the l...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 70 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/18
Title:: 一本道範科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本道範科 [yiben daofan ke]. Basic book for the novice to study. The novice learns the magic in this book; he may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/20
Title:: 一本紅樓判座科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本紅樓判座科 [yiben honglou panzuo ke]. Compilation of two texts: Hong lou and Pan zuo. Hong lou: Magic to make the red and white houses of the mother of the earth. It also makes the altars into money, fruit, rice-fields, etc.; meals and jade maidens...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/21
Title:: 一本引朝科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本引朝科 [yiben yinchao ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲？甲午年六月初十日完筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/29
Title:: 蛟龍竪旛從人讃樓科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 蛟龍竪旛從人讃樓科 [jiaolong shufan congren zancailou ke]. External cover title: 南相白文茭簡科破獄科竪旛從人讃材樓齋醮煉度共一本 [nanxiangbaiwen jiaojian ke poyu ke shufan congren zancailou zhaijiao liandu gongyiben ]. Instructions for sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 55 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/12/34
Title:: 壹本諸百解晨昏早朝夜聰祭鬼使用
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹本諸百解晨昏早朝夜聰祭鬼使用 [yiben zhu baijie chenhun zaozhao yecong jigui shiyong]. External cover title: 壹本諸百解晨昏早朝夜聰使用易 [yiben zhu baijie chenhun zaozhao yecong shiyongyi]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and other magic. Custodial history: Private c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1920
Extent:: 37 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/8
Title:: 一本說醮科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke]. External cover title: 說醮科 [shuojiao ke]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1910
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/17
Title:: 一本黃泉秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉語 [huangquan yu]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao man the Deities of the Elders. Three types of magic inside. Custo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1990
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/13/19
Title:: 雷府科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 雷府科 [leifu ke]. External cover title: 雷府冤解科 [leifu yuanjie ke]. Compilation of two texts: Lei fu and Yuan jie (Jie yuan). Lei fu: Instructions for the ritual to fight back against a ‘report to the spirits’; Yuan jie: Magic to build a house for the deities with three le...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1850
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

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