External cover title: 一本潭清古 [yiben tanqinggu]. The description of Tan Qing's whole life. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太清中華癸未歲正月廿八日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1883 / 1943. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios.
External cover title: 一本白話信書 [yiben baihua xinshu]. The historic stories of their family or nationality. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲辛巳年七月廿一?日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1881 / 1941. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume o...
Title of the first text: 師公書式 [shigongshushi]. External cover title: 師公式 [shigongshi]. Miscellaneous manual used by Daoist "Shigong". Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 132 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐壬子年二月中旬.
Title of the first text: 諸品經 [zhupinjing]. External cover title: 一本諸品經 [yiben zhupinjing]. Anthology of many Daoist scriptures. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬午年七月初二. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1882 / 1942. Extent and format of origina...
Title of the first text: 一本蔣金葉信 [yiben jiangjinye xin]. External cover title: 蔣金葉信語 窩山孺人信 東海勐平信 同一本 [jiangjinye xinyu woshanruren xin donghaimengping xin tongyiben]. Some advices to people and the knowledge about time. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲庚辰年二月廿九日. Calendar note: Stem-branch...
Title of the first text: 一本貢筵救患洪樓科 [yiben gongyan jiuhuan honglong ke]. External cover title: 一本救患科 [yiben 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 ...
External cover title: 南相會聖科 [nanxiang huisheng ke ]. Compilation of two texts: nanxiang and huisheng. Nanxiang: Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods; Huisheng: Text to open the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios.
Title of the first text: 羅家宗枝書 [luojia zongzhi shu]. External cover title: 羅家宗枝存在書 [luojia zongzhi cunzaishu]. Record the birth of the Luo’s descendants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲辛酉年七月廿九日亥時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1921 / 1981. ...
Title of the first text: 英臺古啟 [yingtai guqi]. External cover title: 一本英臺古 [yiben yingtai gu]. The description of life and stories about Yingtai. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬午年七月十二日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1882 / 1942. Extent a...
External cover title: 按龍秘語受戒二本 [anlong miyu shoujie erben ]. Compilation of two texts:anlong and shoujie. Anlong: Miscellaneous instructions about details of the ritual and the ceremony in the funeral; Shoujie： Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist...
