External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮秘 [yiben qingjiao mi]. Miscellanous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of offering. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 129 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒三十四年乙巳歲八月抄完畢.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍科 [Anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios....
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本小雜秘 [yiben xiao za mi]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 中華...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 小橋台一本 [Xiao qiaotai yiben]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 86 folios. Chi...
Title of the first text: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke]. External cover title: 說醮科 [shuojiao ke]. 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 21 foli...
Title of the first text: 一本大部南靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material...
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: 飛章科 [feizhang ke.] Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further...
Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉語 [huangquan yu]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao man the Deities of the Elders. Three types of magic inside. Custodial hi...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 新雜諸禁盤秘語一本 [Xin za zhu jinpan miyu yiben]. Magic to rescue the soul sent by a hostile sorcerer to various areas (eg. Spirit-side, Deep Forest, Purgatory, River). Custodial history...
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 second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tablet. T...
