Archive Reference (shelfmark): EAP791/1 / Subject: Folklore - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/27
Title:: 壹本飛章科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本飛章科 [yiben feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1941
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/28
Title:: 壹本煉度科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本煉度科 [yiben 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 ancesto...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/29
Title:: 壹卷?敬?思?閑?語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹卷?敬?思?閑?語 [Yijuan jing si xian yu]. Ceremony to hold audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 39 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/30
Title:: 壹本二宮科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹本二宮科 [yiben ergong ke]. External cover title: 二宮科 [ergong ke]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the Dipper gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 8 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/31
Title:: 壹本南相閑？目大斎
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本南相閑？目大斎 [yiben nanxiang xianmu dazhai]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 中華民國三十一年壬午歲龍月猴日抄完.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1942
Extent:: 10 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17
Title:: Anonymous Collector 17
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 39 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/17/1 to EAP791/1/17/39. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1650-1940
Extent:: 1423 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/1
Title:: 又集授戒川光
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 又集授戒川光 [youji shoujie chuanguang]. External cover title: 一本授戒川光 [yiben shoujie chuanguang]. Magic for the ordination of the disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1940
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/2
Title:: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科 [yiben poyu liandu jiaolong ke]. Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Jiaojian...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/3
Title:: 度亡天機一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 度亡天機一本 [duwang tianji yiben]. 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 form...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/4
Title:: 喪家秘語一部
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家秘語一部 [Sangjia miyu yibu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Ext...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 17 TIFF images

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