Subject: Magic / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18
Title:: Anonymous Collector 18
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 7 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/18/1 to EAP791/1/18/7. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1806-2013
Extent:: 313 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18/4
Title:: 按龍秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語 [Anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of ori...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2010
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/18/6
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 audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 35 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 二千一三年癸巳歲四月十三日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 2013
Extent:: 29 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19
Title:: Anonymous Collector 19
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 55 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/19/1 to EAP791/1/19/55. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1810-1960
Extent:: 1940 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/3
Title:: 貢延洪恩秘
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 貢延洪恩秘 [gongyan hong'en mi]. Compilation of two texts: Gong yan and Hong en. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in the human side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh, deities that a household honours. The altars are transformed into wealth, f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1854
Extent:: 92 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/10
Title:: 一本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. 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 34 folios. C...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/11
Title:: 一本亡秘朝天金語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本亡秘朝天金語 [yiben wang mi chaotian jinyu]. External cover title: 一本亡秘語 [yiben wang 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 living. Custodial history: Pr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1960
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/13
Title:: 早晚救患秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 早晚救患秘語 [zaowan jiuhuan miyu]. External cover title: 三宮科 [sangong ke]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘kill the insects/pest’ of the flowers, that is to prot...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1931
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/14
Title:: 清醮秘語壹部
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮秘語壹部 [qingjiao miyu yibu]. 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 113 folios. C...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 86 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/15
Title:: 一本良綠金語寶全冊
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本良綠金語寶全冊 [Yiben lianglv jinyu bao quance]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, frui...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1896
Extent:: 115 TIFF images

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