Title of the first text: 壹本三朝不長?科 [yiben sanchao ? ke]. External cover title: 壹本禮境科 [yiben lijing ke ]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 53 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲已巳年七月三十日.
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: 壹本道意玉京盟真救苦貢王斎意 [yiben daoyi yujing mengzhen jiuku gongwang zhaiyi.] Ceremony to make a retreat with the gods, ensuring the salvation of the deceased. Cust...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 重集旛戎在尾 [yawang ke chongji fanrong zaiwei]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 35 folios. Chine...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. 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, this is your story, ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cann...
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: 一本大獻接聖科 [yiben jiesheng daxian ke.] Ceremony to summon various tutelary gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original materi...
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...
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: 一冊神目科 [yice shenmu ke.] Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, et...
Title of the first text: 一本大喃靈科 [yiben da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. 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 mat...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本小雜秘 [yiben xiao za mi]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era name (regnal y...