Title of the first text: 一本引朝科 [yiben yinzhao ke]. External cover title: 引朝科 [yinzhao ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙戌年七月十一日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1886 / 1946. Extent a...
Title of the first text: 壹本小喃靈科 [yiben xiaonanling ke ]. External cover title: 一本小喃靈科 [yiben xiao nanling ke ]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲庚辰年九月十九日午時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Tw...
Title of the first text: 釋服祝從讃車科 [shifu zhucong zanche ke]. External cover title: 一本釋服讃車從人科 [yiben shifu zanche congren ke]. Ceremony of giving the deceased parents or husbands and wives some “people”, so that the death can order "servants" in the heavens. Besides, opening the light for the Ba...
Title of the first text: 一本符命式南昌科 [yiben fumingshi nanchang ke]. External cover title: 一本南昌科 [yiben nanchang ke ]. Compilation of spells and talismans which seem to be used in the ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 28 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲壬午年三...
Title of the first text: 一本飛章科 [yiben feizhang ke ]. External cover title: 齋醮飛章科 [zhaijiao feizhang ke ]. The ritual of sending up a petition to heaven. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲戊寅年七月十六日申時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1938 / 1998. ...
Title of the first text: 壹本朝天科 [yiben chaotian ke]. External cover title: 朝天科 [chaotian ke ]. Ceremony to make confession to heaven. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁亥年八月廿八日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1887 / 1947. Extent and format of o...
Title of the first text: 喪家文字式 [sangjia wenzi shi]. External cover title: 文字或(式) [wenzi shi ]. Instructions text for the ritual actions. For instance, instructions to arrange the ritual space and for writings. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios. Date(s) claimed in ...
Title of the first text: 初授戒開經共一本 [chu shoujie kaijing gongyiben ]. External cover title: 初受戒初開經科一本 [chu shoujie chu kaijing ke yiben ]. Miscellaneous instructions of Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios...
External cover title: 一本靈寶婚?啟 [yiben lingbao hun ?qi]. Miscellaneous instructions about the rituals for marital problems. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲辛亥年五月初六日未時. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1911 / 1971. Extent and format of original ma...
External cover title and title of the first text: 黃甲信 [huangjia xin]. The stories of Huang's family and some advices to descendants. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲中華民國癸未年十月初一日.