External cover title and title of the first text: 半(判)座科 [panzuo ke ]. The description of the work of Tai Mu. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲午年十二月三十日寫完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1894 / 1954. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 招兵科 [Zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲午年底畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches syste...
This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is for the title on the outer cover. External cover title: 伸斗科 [shendou ke ]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders. Extent and format of original material: 1...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本小南靈科 [Yiben xiao nanling ke]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲午年八月十三日酉時抄筆. Calendar note...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 良緣齋醮秘語一冊 [Liangyuan zhaijiao miyu yice]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including open the eyes. Extent and format of original material: 1 vo...
Title of the first text: 邙秘語 [wang miyu]. External cover title: 一本邙秘語天機 [yiben wang miyu tianji ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲辰年夾大?子月十四日院申時終畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or...
Title of the first text: 一本受戒金語 [yiben shoujie jinyu]. External cover title: 受戒二教秘語 [shoujie erjiao miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 上卷南靈 [Shangjuan nanling]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of ori...
Title of the first text: 関告會聖敕壇淨 [guangao huisheng chitan jing ]. External cover title: 一本齋醮敕壇関告會聖淨壇科 [yiben zhaijiao chitan guangao huisheng jingtan ke ]. Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Extent and format of...
External cover title and title of the first text: 宿啟科 [suqi ke ]. Ceremony to announce various gods in advance (namely Suqi), as a preparation period of the whole ritual. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙未年正月初八底畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates...