Title of the first text: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. External cover title: 調雞科壹本 [diaoji ke yiben ]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十年己乙六月上旬終筆.
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 壹本鬼? [yiben gui?]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, thi...
Title of the first text: 大齋短秘語壹部 [dazhai duan miyu yibu ]. External cover title: 諸齋亡大小短秘語一本 [zhu zhaiwang daxiao duan miyu yiben ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 100 folio...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 符命式 [Fuming shi]. Compilation of spells and talismans which seem to be used in the ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed ...
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: 土府延生草時科一本 [tufu yansheng caoshi ke yiben ]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Daoist retreat, ensuring the longevity of the host. Extent and format ...
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: 一本伸斗科 [yiben shendou ke ]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders. Extent and format of original mat...
External cover title: 一本道範科 [yiben daofan ke ]. Basic book for the novice to study. He may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬辰年二月廿十五日申時完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1...
External cover title: 貢筵洪恩 判座紅樓 [gongyan hongen panzuo honglou ]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood;The description of the work of Tai Mu; Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 齋醮神目一本 [Zhaijiao shenmu yiben]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 56 folios. Date(s) claimed in...
Title of the first text: 壹本龍科 [yiben longke ]. External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 76 folios.