External cover title and title of the first text: 宿啟科齋醮科通用 [suqi ke zhaijiao ke tongyong]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the All the Living Creatures.Magic to...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 急中救患祈嗣 按龍伸斗解冤共一本 [Jizhong jiuhuan qisi anlong shendou jieyuan]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announc...
External cover title and title of the first text: 師公判座科 [shigong panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu the Mother Empress. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 65 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): ?辛卯年六月十六日.
This collection contains 43 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/29/1 to EAP791/1/29/43. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
External cover title and title of the first text: 土府延生宿啟科全本 [tufu yansheng suqi ke quanben]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the All the Living Creatures. Cust...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍伸斗解冤 [Anlong shendou jieyuan]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本血湖經 [Yiben xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had polluted t...
The vault of the Eastern Caribbean Court House, Nevis, holds numerous historic manuscript documents connected with the legal and colonial administration of the island. The earliest records date from 1705, with records continuing through to the 20th century. Some recent court documents are also h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1705-1974
Extent:
10 series comprised of 155 files containing 53149 TIFF images
The Common Deed Record Books run in an almost continuous series from 1707 to 1922. There are 52 Common Record books in total to 1922, plus one Entry Book of deeds, 1884-1956, with others continuing into the twenty-first century. They are large bound volumes and, because of the continuity and con...
The books of wills are held in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Registry vault. The books record the copies made of the originals. They comprise six volumes which run from 1763 to 1864 continuously when there is a gap during 1865. One further volume runs from 1866 to 1880. Each of the ...