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: 茭簡 破獄科 [jiaojianpoyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: iaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 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: 一本安龍科 [Yiben anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 96 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 讚燈科 [Zandeng ke]. Instructions to turn on the lamp of the Keau Hu Man so they can have light in the Purgatory. They give them also the money so the newly dead have cash to ...
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 52 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國三年七月十七日完筆.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本大南靈 [yiben dananling ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本齋亡秘語 [Yiben zhaiwang 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 problems...
External cover title and title of the first text: 謝王化依科一本 [xiewang huayi ke yiben]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 76 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒二十三年十二月十四日辰時終筆.
Title of the first text: 按龍伸斗秘語 [anlong shendou miyu ]. External cover title: 按龍伸斗科 [anlong shendou ke ]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities...
This collection contains 30 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/39/1 to EAP1126/1/39/30. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.