External cover title and title of the first text: 啟師破獄科 [qishi poyu ke]. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
Title of the first text: 亡故大敗秘語 [wanggu dabai miyu]. External cover title: 南敗秘語 [nannbai miyu ]. 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 mater...
External cover title and title of the first text: 金章經在頭三官經在尾 [jinzhang jing zaitou sanguan jing zaiwei]. Contains the Daoist scripture Taishanglaojun Shuo Wudou Jinzhang Shousheng Miaojing. A scripture about the function and the merit of Sanguan (the Three Officers, including Heaven, Earth and ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦經 [jiuku jing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 14 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
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: 一本按龍秘語 [yiben anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
Title of the first text: 大小斎聖目 [daxiaozhaishengmu]. External cover title: 無上東獄解冤中壇科 [wu shang dong yu jie yuan zhong tan ke]. Magic to build a house for the deities with three levels outside of the house. In the magic kill the Jade Emperor and substitute him with the second in charge. Organize...
Title of the first text: 一本演朝科 [yiben yanchao ke]. External cover title: 演朝科 [yanchao ke]. Ceremony to hold audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 23 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲?丁酉年七月二十三日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本糧精科 [yiben liangjing 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): 民國四十一年壬辰歲十二月十五日抄畢.
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...
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.