Title of the first text: 一本受械(戒)秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu ]. External cover title: 一本受戒秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 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 64 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十七年丁未歲仲呂月完筆.
Title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. External cover title: 化依科小喃靈共一本 [huayi ke xiao nanling gong yiben]. Compilation of two texts: xiao huayi and xiao nanling. Huayi: Ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors; Nanling: Ceremony for the offspring t...
Title of the first text: 亡秘一本金語 [wangmi yiben jinyu]. External cover title: 一本亡秘語 [yiben wang miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Extent and format of original mat...
External cover title: 齋怗簡関告 醮符吏関告 會聖敕壇 同壹冊 [zhai zhanjian guangao jiao fuli guangao chitan tognyice]. Compilation of three texts: guangao, huisheng and chitan. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Huisheng: Text to follow with the opening. Chitan: Instructions to collect the Spirits. Date(s) cl...
External cover title and title of the first text: 功曹唱 師公意 [gongcao chang shigong yi ]. Instructions to send the deities of messengers to inform and invite all the deities to join the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 106 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太...
External cover title and title of the first text: 二宮 三宮科一本 [ergong sangong ke yiben]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manusc...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 老君金言 壹本雜秘共齋邙 [Laojun jinyan yiben zami gong zhaiwang]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and forma...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [新恩科 開解科] [[xinen ke kaijie ke]]. Compilation of spells and scriptures which seem to be used in the ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本開山 齋醮初請法 [Yiben kaishan zhaijiao chuqing fa]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 122 fo...