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 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乾隆肆拾五年庚子歲癸未月戊申日.
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tablet. The...
Title of the first text: 一本謝雷百解秘語 [yiben xielei baijie miyu]. External cover title: 謝雷秘語 [xielei miyu]. Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folios. Date(s...
Title of the first text: 一本大齋良緣 授械(戒) 天饑(機)秘語之法 [yiben dazhai liangyuan shoujie tianji miyuzhifa ]. External cover title: 一本大齋秘語 [yiben dazhai miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals. Like a collection of magic books. Extent and format of original material: 1 volum...
Title of the first text: 清醮 說醮在頭 飛章在尾 [qingjiao shuojiao zaitou feizhang zaiwei]. External cover title: 清醮 說醮飛章 [qingjiao shuojiao feizhang ]. Compilation of two texts: qingjiao and shejiao. qingjiao: Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to ...
External cover title: 一本神行醮 延生 土府 貢王 十供 [yiben shen xingjiao yansheng tufu gongwang shigong ]. Instructions about holding an audience with the gods, ensuring the longevity of the clients. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲己丑年七月三十日辰時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: T...
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: 初真在頭 天師戒度科 開解在尾 [chuzhen zaitou tianshi jiedu ke kaijie zaiwei]. Compilation of three texts: chuzhen, tianshi jiedu and kaijie. Chuzhen: Opening ceremony o...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝雷秘語 [yiben xielei miyu ]. Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the armies of the Lord of Thunder that people may casually meet in the Forest. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios.
Title of the first text: 燈筵 伸斗 按龍天機 解冤 朝天諸蜜(秘) [dengyan shendou anlongtianji jieyuan chaotian zhumi]. External cover title: 救患天機 [jiuhuan tianji]. Ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to the deities of the elders; Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ance...