This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 小橋台科 [Xiao qiaotai ke]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 23 folios....
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 開山唱 [Kaishan chang]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本救患通用科 [yiben jiuhuan tongyong ke]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, this is y...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 合婚書壹本 [Hehun shu yiben]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mat...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本怗簡符吏科敕壇科清醮說醮科 [Yiben zhanjian fuli ke chitan ke qingjiao shuojiao ke]. Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know th...
External cover title and title of the first text: 會聖靜壇科 [huisheng jingtan ke]. Compilation of two texts: Huisheng and Jingtan. Huisheng:Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Bring the money from the bank to start the...
External cover title and title of the first text: 宿啟科齋醮科通用 [suqi ke zhaijiao ke tongyong]. 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 All the Living Creatures.Magic to...
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: 一本道范 [yiben daofan.] Basic book for the novice to learn. He may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Custodial histor...
External cover title and title of the first text: 引朝科 [yinchao ke]. Instructions about holding audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲？戌子年七月初一日抄完.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南靈科 [Nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private colle...
