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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24
Title:: Anonymous Collector 24
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 46 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/24/1 to EAP791/1/24/46. 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:: 1807-1977
Extent:: 1888 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/1
Title:: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾 [yiben fuming shi dalian zaitou xiaolian zaiwei]. 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 ha...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/3
Title:: 洪恩大會科壹本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩大會科壹本 [hong'en dahui ke yiben]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 95 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲下元乙未年九...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 96 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/6
Title:: 一本師意
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本師意 [Yiben shiyi]. Instructions about providing offerings for the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 fol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/7
Title:: 開山一本
Scope & Content:: 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: 開山一本 [kaishan yiben.] Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of origin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/9
Title:: 清醮宿啟科敕壇關告說醮在內
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 清醮宿啟科敕壇關告說醮在內 [Qingjiao suqi ke chitan guan'gao shuojiao zainei]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and foo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 56 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/12
Title:: 一本朝天科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本朝天科 [Yiben chaotian ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/13
Title:: 一本凈壇科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本凈壇科 [Yiben jingtan ke]. Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office for the deities’). They make the spirit side of the altars clean and beautiful....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1921
Extent:: 20 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/14
Title:: 一本迓王科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [Yiben yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 27 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/24/15
Title:: 救苦貢王宿啟科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救苦貢王宿啟科 [Jiuku gongwang suqi ke]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead.The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a mag...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

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