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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/19/52
Title:: 救苦延生宿啟科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦延生宿啟科 [jiuku yansheng suqi ke]. Ceremony to announce variousgods in advance, as a preparation period of the ritual for the salvation of the deceased or the longevity of the living .The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1845
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20
Title:: Anonymous Collector 20
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 23 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/20/1 to EAP791/1/20/23. 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:: 1775-1952
Extent:: 1595 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/3
Title:: 按龍救患秘語
Scope & Content:: 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: 按龍救患秘語 [anlong jiuhuan miyu.] Compilation of two texts: An long and jiu huan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Jiuhuan....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 129 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/9
Title:: 延生三時清醮同?用
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 延生三時清醮同?用 [Yansheng sanshi qingjiao tong?yong]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the ho...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1777
Extent:: 100 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/10
Title:: 一本黃泉秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 一本黃泉秘 [yiben huangquan mi]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao man the Deities of the Elders. Three types of magic inside...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1937
Extent:: 23 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/12
Title:: 貢延洪恩秘語一冊
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 貢延洪恩秘語一冊 [Gongyanhong'enmiyuyice]. Compilation of two texts: Gong yan and Hong en. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 162 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/13
Title:: 一本糧精科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本糧精科 [yiben liangjing ke]. Instructions about holding audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 27 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 中華民國四十一年七月十五日抄畢.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1952
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/16
Title:: 壹本符吏敕壇宿啟設醮科
Scope & Content:: 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: 壹本符吏敕壇宿啟設醮科 [yiben fuli chitan suqi shejiao ke.] Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 118 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/17
Title:: 道教受戒秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 道教受戒秘語 [daojiao shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes magic.’. Custodial ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1883
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/20/19
Title:: 早晚救患燈延安龍伸斗解冤壹部
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 早晚救患燈延安龍伸斗解冤壹部 [zaowan jiuhuan dengyan anlong shendou jieyuan yibu]. External cover title: 救患按龍秘語 [jiuhuan anlong miyu]. 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 ‘kil...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1939
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

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