Archive Reference (shelfmark): EAP1126/1 / Subject: Rites and Ceremonies - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/12
Title:: 壹本百解整花根求花秘兩本秘
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹本百解整花根求花秘兩本秘 [yiben baijie zhenghuagen qiuhuami liangbenmi]. External cover title: 一本百解 [yiben baijie]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/13
Title:: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 龍童交簡破獄科同一本 [longtong jiaojian poyu ke tongyiben]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1927-1987
Extent:: 14 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/14
Title:: 初真弟子修身科開解科在尾
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 初真弟子修身科開解科在尾 [chuzhen dizi xiushen ke kaijie ke zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: chuzhen and kaijie. Chuzhen: Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts; Kaijie: Instr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1912-1972
Extent:: 21 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/15
Title:: 仰帥科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 仰帥科 [yangshuai ke]. The ritual that the priest is going to break the Gates of the Purgatory and request the 5 Armies to come to occupy the positions in the body. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年五月十五日夜. Calendar note: Stem-branches syst...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1927-1987
Extent:: 8 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/16
Title:: 道師受戒秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 道師受戒秘語 [daoshi shoujie miyu ]. External cover title: 受戒師道秘語 [shoujie shidao miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios. Date(s) claimed in the man...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 6 May 1855
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/17
Title:: 喃相科受戒道師皈依同本
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 喃相科受戒道師皈依同本 [nanxiang ke shoujie daoshi guiyi tongben]. External cover title: 喃相科受戒皈依道師在尾 [nanxiang ke shoujie guiyi daoshi zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: nanxiang and shoujie. Nanxiang: Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1911-1971
Extent:: 12 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/18
Title:: 迓王科
Scope & Content:: 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 58 folios.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/19
Title:: 上卷南靈科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 上卷南靈科 [shangjuan nanling ke]. External cover title: 南靈科 [nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙丑年正月十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1925-1985
Extent:: 71 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/20
Title:: [煉度科]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [煉度科] [[liandu ke]]. Liandu: Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 19 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/2/21
Title:: 唱功曹開山科同壹冊
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 唱功曹開山科同壹冊 [chang gongcao kaishan ke tongyice]. External cover title: 開山科 [kaishan ke]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲寅年二月廿日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausibl...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1914-1974
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

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