Daozang jiyao - 道藏辑要

The "Essentials of the Daoist Canon" counts as the main collection of Daoist texts after the Daozang. Its bibliographical history is rather complicated and subject to discussion. After a first version of the "Essentials" was compiled around 1700, in the 18th and 19th century several re-editions and addition were made to the set of texts until in 1906 He Longxiang 賀龍驤 and Peng Hanran 彭瀚然 published the 重刊道藏輯要 in Chengdu. The texts of the "Essentials" chiefly derive from Zhengtong Daozang 正統到藏 edition (1445) but it also contains some additional texts or other editions of Zhengtong texts. Specialists have called it an "indispensible source for research on Daoism in the Ming and Qing period" (see Monica Esposito's short presentation on the Daozang jiyao project page: http://www.daozangjiyao.org and Fabricio Pregadio's entry in the "The Encyclopedia of Taoism"). The 299 texts and scans currently available in the database are those of the 1906 printed version of the Daozang jiyao; for a catalogue of the titles see the East Asia catalogue (crossasia.stabikat.de, search for 道藏辑要 二仙庵藏重刊本) and also the catalogue of the collection compiled by Fabricia Pregadio and Monica Esposito (http://www.academia.edu/7110934/Catalogue_of_the_Daozang_Jiyao_道藏輯要目錄_). Fulltext search, search for book title, author, comments etc. are available; scans of the 1906 edition are provided; texts are downloadable page by page. The paper volumes of the "Essentials" have the shelfmarks 5 B 25951 to 5 B 25979; full text and scanned images of the Zhengtong Daozang can be found in the Scripta sinica database (http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/ScriptaSinica/) under 子 > 宗教 (where also several other religious titles and collections are provided, incl. the Jiyao). The database is part of the Diaolong portal.