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 26 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 嘉慶拾玖年甲戌歲丁卯月望三日抄完.
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: 一本救經 [yiben jiujing.] A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the ba...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小南靈科 [xiao 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 collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 14 foli...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救患巫教秘 [Jiuhuan wujiao mi]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本亡秘語天機 [yiben wang miyu tianji]. 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 problems for the living. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and ...
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: 壹冊按龍秘語 [yice anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 籠重茭簡破獄同一本 [longzhong jiaojian poyu tong yiben]. Compilation of two texts: Longzhongjiaojian and Poyu. Longzhongjiaojian:Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death rit...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍伸斗解冤 [Anlong shendou jieyuan]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一宗書科修?醮共初真科聖?按龍科一本集 [Yizong shuke xiu jiao gong chuzhen ke sheng? anlongke yiben ji]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite th...
External cover title and title of the first text: 南昌大煉科 [nanchang dalian ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from Purgatory during the second death ritual; last part. They are bathed with water. In the last part of this ceremony, they are ...