External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 59 folios. C...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 集一本百解秘語 [Ji yiben baijie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and...
Title of the first text: 天師戒度科 [tianshi jiedu ke]. External cover title: 天師? [tianshi]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 道光二年...
Title of the first text: 按龍科百卷下本 [anlong ke baijuan xiaben]. External cover title: 按龍化依科共本 [anlong huayi ke gongben ]. compilation of two texts. An Long:Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Hua Yi:Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/r...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸天秘雜百解小部語冊 [Zhu tian miza baijie xiaobu yuce]. Miscellaneous descriptions including a namelist of the gods, and other exorcistic healing rituals. Custodial history: Privat...
Title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. External cover title: 一本煉度科 [yiben liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. In the last part of this ceremony, they are rescued and can join th...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝境科 [yiben xiejing ke]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters din man when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in the hunt. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 19 folios. Chinese era ...
Title of the first text: 龍重茭簡 斎壇凈壇 釋服讃材樓兩本在尾 [longzhong jiaojian zhaitan jingtan shigu zancailou liangben zaiwei]. External cover title: 龍重茭簡 斎凈壇 釋服科 讃材樓 四卷 [longzhong jiaojian zhaijingtan shiguke zancailou sijuan]. Compilation of four texts: Long zhong jiao jian, Jing tan, Shi fu and Zan cai ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 救患秘語一本 [Jiuhuan miyu yiben]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 血湖秘授 玉皇心印 閻羅滅罪 恩重父母 道場科 [Xuehu mishou yuhuang xinjing yanluo miezui enzhong fumu daochang ke]. Ceremonies to ensure the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Priva...