External cover title and title of the first text: 一本神目科 [yiben shenmu ke ]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 86 folios. Date(s) claimed in t...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本男女秋蓮敬相打用 [Yiben nannv qiulian jingxiang dayong]. Antiphonal singing lyrics Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸酉年七月十三日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title: 一本會聖淨壇科 [yiben huisheng jingtan ke ]. Huisheng: Text to open the ceremony. Jingtan: Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office for the deities’). They make the spirit side of the altars clean and beautiful Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
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: 伸斗小関告科共一本 [shendou xiao guangao ke gongyiben]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deit...
Title of the first text: 從人讚才樓破獄交简科 [congren zancailou poyu jiaojian ke]. External cover title: 一本破獄科 [yiben poyu ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. It contains instructions so this house has everything in the...
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: 一本朝天百解科 [yiben chaotian baijie ke ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 fol...
Title of the first text: 迓王煉度科 [yawang liandu ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 72 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國甲午歲五月十二日抄完.
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: 一本初真披簪開解科 [yiben chuzhen pizan kaijie ke ]. Pizan:T he instructions to teach the boy. The ritual expert translates this book for the boy from formal to ver...
Title of the first text: 盤皇接聖橋台科 [panhuang jiesheng qiaotai ke]. External cover title: 盤皇接聖科 [panhuang jiesheng ke]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚寅年六月十八日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1830 / ...
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: 大亡秘語 [dawang 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 p...
