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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...