Title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. External cover title: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇號壬申年八月十九. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1812 / 1872. Extent and for...
Title of the first text: 喃相科 受戒道師皈依同本 [nanxiang ke shoujie daoshi guiyi tongben]. External cover title: 喃相科 受戒皈依道師在尾 [nanxiang ke shoujie guiyi daoshi zaiwei]. Compilation of two texts: nanxiang and shoujie. Nanxiang: Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods; Shoujie: Miscellaneous instructi...
Title of the first text: 訷䚵(伸斗)科 [shendou ke]. 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 volume of 50 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒皇三四年戊申歲四月廿拾...
Title of the first text: 壹冊百解秘語 [yice baijie miyu]. External cover title: 一本小百解秘語 [yiben xiaobaijie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲...
Title of the first text: 授械(戒)秘語 [shoujie miyu]. External cover title: 一本授械(戒)秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲申年二月廿八日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years...
External cover title and title of the first text: 仰帥科 [yangshuai ke]. The ritual that the priest is going to break the Gates of the Purgatory and request the 5 Armies to come to occupy the positions in the body. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年五月十五日夜. Calendar note: Stem-branches syst...
External cover title and title of the first text: 道範科 [daofan ke ]. Basic book for the novice to study. The novice learns the magic in this book; he may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊寅年六月廿二日. Calendar note: Stem...
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...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 集小百解秘語一本 [Ji xiaobaijie miyu yiben]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume ...
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 58 folios.