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: 壹册南昌科大小煉叁 [yizhou?changkedaxiao?san?.] Compilation of spells which seem to be used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
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. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 咸豐二年壬子歲次四月十一日開筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 先主來請聖之法 [Xianzhu lai qingsheng zhi fa]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, ceremony in Taoist rituals or funerals. Custodial history: Private col...
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 second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tabl...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本破獄龍重茭簡科 [Yiben poyu longzhong jiaojian ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let them know that the sec...
