Title of the first text: 授械(戒)天機秘語 [shoujie tianji miyu]. External cover title: 受械(戒)秘 [shoujie mi]. Magic for the ordination disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tool...
Title of the first text: 壹本金語齋醮用 [yiben jinyu zhaijiao yong]. External cover title: 壹本大齋醮同 [yiben dazhaijiao tong]. Miscellaneous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of retreat. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 84 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光六年巳...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [占卜曆書] [[zhanbu lishu]]. Book of divination. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 嘉庆年间.
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: 一本齋醮宿啟科 [yiben zhaijiao suqi ke]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the moth...
Title of the first text: 判座科壹冊 [panzuo ke yice]. External cover title: 判座科壹冊 早晚判座 [panzuo ke yice zaowan panzuo]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十二年八月十六.
External cover title and title of the first text: 帝母半(判)座科 [dimu panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊辰年五月初二日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1808 / 1868. Extent and format of or...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹按龍伸斗秘語 [Yi anlong shendou miyu]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本設醮飛章科 [Yiben shejiao feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate ...
Title of the first text: 清醮関告啟去 宿啟設醮科 [qingjiaoguangao qiqu suqi shejiao ke]. External cover title: 一本宿啟科 [yiben suqi ke ]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the...
External cover title: 伸魂科一本 [shenhun ke yiben]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios.