Ceremony to provide an offering to various gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 29 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 道光二十一年正月十二日抄完.
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 71 folios. Chinese e...
External cover title and title of the first text: 送終三夜科 [songzhong sanye ke]. Instructions about the details of the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 46 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 道光甲辰年十月初...
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: 開山一本 [kaishan yiben.] Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mater...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本凈壇科 [Yiben jingtan ke]. Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office for the deities’). They make the spirit side of the altars clean and beautiful. Custo...
External cover title and title of the first text: 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 working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. Custodial hist...
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: 一本神目科 [yiben shenmu ke.] Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Cu...
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: 一本伸科 [yiben shen ke.] First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Custodial hi...
Title of the first text: 喪家式試？文字對 [sangjia shishi wenzi dui]. External cover title: 喪家文字 [sangjiawenzi ]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 39 ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本化依小南靈科共 [Yiben huayi xiao nanling ke gong]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Ceremony for seeing off the newly decease...
