External cover title and title of the first text: 授械(戒)川光科 [shoujie chuanguang ke]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬子年四月廿六日戌時. Two plausible dates: 1912/1972.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [百解秘語] [[baijie miyu]]. Baijie: Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 11...
External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios.
External cover title: 一本引朝科 [yiben yinzhao ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆肆拾五年庚子歲癸未月戊申日.
Title of the first text: 茭龍科破獄科共一本 [jiaolong ke poyu ke gongyiben]. External cover title: 茭龍破獄科 [jiaolong poyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaolong and Poyu. Jiaolong: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death r...
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tablet. The...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本二宮科 [yiben ergong ke]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本喃靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本大部喃靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊子年四月初二日午時. Calendar note: S...
External cover title: 一本符吏會聖敕壇科 [yiben fuli huisheng chitan ke]. Compilation of three texts: fuli, huisheng and chitan. Fuli: Instruction for summoning the spell officials (Fuli); Huisheng:Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the Bad Spirits. Date(s) claimed in the manusc...