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: 一本婚姻 [yiben hunyin.] Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of...
Miscellaneous descriptions of theexorcistic healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 81 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Title of the first text: 消災經大部 [xiaozai jing dabu]. External cover title: 消災經 [xiaozai jing ]. Money for Piao Man and Yao Zhaeng to take care of the owners of the ceremony. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 10 folios. Chinese era name...
Title of the first text: 一本新教授戒皈依三教金語 [yiben xinjiao shoujie guiyi sanjiao jinyu]. External cover title: 一本新教 [yiben xinjiao]. Magic for the ordination of the disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [...
External cover title and title of the first text: 披簪科一本 [pizan ke yiben]. Instructions to teach the boy. Moral rules to follow in order to behave like a gentleman/scholar. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 22 folios. Chinese era name (...
Title of the first text: 玉皇經中卷 [yuhuang jing zhongjuan]. External cover title: 玉皇經 [yuhuang jing ]. Ceremony to provide three offerings for Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) in one day. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 10 folios. Chinese era na...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 16 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
External cover title and title of the first text: 啟師破獄科 [qishi poyu ke]. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. 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: 一本招兵 [Yiben zhaobing]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is...
Title of the first text: 亡故大敗秘語 [wanggu dabai miyu]. External cover title: 南敗秘語 [nannbai miyu ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mater...