External cover title and title of the first text: 初真弟子修身科 開解科在尾 [chuzhen dizi xiushen ke kaijie ke zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: chuzhen and kaijie. Chuzhen: Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts; Kaijie: Instr...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 重集旛式在尾 [yawangke yiben chongji fanshi zai wei ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬寅十二十月十...
Title of the first text: 老君金語 壹本大替茆人工諸大敗 [laojun jinyu yiben datimaorengong zhu dabai]. External cover title: 壹本大替茆人聖法共諸大敗 [yiben dati maoren shengfa gongzhu dabai ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小煉式 小煉符四十七道 [xiaolianshi xiaolianfu sishiqidao ]. Compilation of spells used in the ritual for the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 22 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 嘉慶十八年十九月?十五日立.
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: 老君金語 一本清醮秘語 [laojun jinyu yiben qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food...
Title of the first text: 一本大齋良緣 授械(戒) 天饑(機)秘語之法 [yiben dazhai liangyuan shoujie tianji miyuzhifa ]. External cover title: 一本大齋秘語 [yiben dazhai miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals. Like a collection of magic books. Extent and format of original material: 1 volum...
Title of the first text: 清醮 說醮在頭 飛章在尾 [qingjiao shuojiao zaitou feizhang zaiwei]. External cover title: 清醮 說醮飛章 [qingjiao shuojiao feizhang ]. Compilation of two texts: qingjiao and shejiao. qingjiao: Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to ...
Title of the first text: 唱功曹 開山科 同壹冊 [chang gongcao kaishan ke tongyice]. External cover title: 開山科 [kaishan ke]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年二月廿日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
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: 淨壇 二宮 三宮科 [jingtan ergong sangong ke ]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 功曹 接聖科 大獻用 [Gongcao jiesheng ke daxian yong]. Gongcao: Instructions to send the deities of Messengers to inform and invite all the deities to join the ceremony. Jiesheng an...