External cover title: 招兵科 [zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬子年七月初三甲時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 / 1972. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of...
Title of the first text: 黃泉秘借倩共一本 [huangquan mi jieqian gongyiben]. External cover title: 一本百解秘語天機 [yiben baijie miyu tianji]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 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: 小化依小南靈科同壹冊 [xiaohuayi xiaonanling ke tongyice ]. 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 to see off the deceased, with a long scen...
External cover title: 齋引朝科 [zhai yinzhao ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios.
Title of the first text: 喪家度亡秘語 [sangjia duwang miyu]. External cover title: 喪家度亡秘語一本 [sangjia duwang miyu yiben]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 130 folios. Date(s) claim...
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: 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 ...
Title of the first text: 一冊救患科 [yice jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 救患科 [jiuhuan ke]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. Extent and format ...
Title of the first text: 說醮飛章送聖三獻科同一本 [shuojiao feizhang songsheng sanxian ke tognyiben]. External cover title: 說醮飛章送聖科 [shuojiao feizhang songsheng ke]. Compilation of two texts: shejiao, feizhang and songsheng sanxian. Shejiao: Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a peti...
