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ORB 30/217
- Record Id:
- 032-003903321
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003903321
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122040681.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100157409877.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB 30/217
- Title:
- Shinpen sentō yowa 新編剪燈餘話 [新編剪灯余話]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Sentō yowa 剪燈餘話 [剪灯余話]
Author/compiler: Li Changqi (明) 李昌祺, also known as Li Zhen 李禎, 1376-1452, original author. Text revised by Liu Jing (明) 劉敬 and collated for publication by Zhang Guangqi (明) 張光啓.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Genna / early-Kan'ei period, c. 1615-30] . No colophon.
Description: 5 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 6 (序, 目録), 27 (maki 1 本文) ; (2) ff. 30; (3) ff. 21; (4) ff. 31; (5) ff. 30. 27.2 x 19.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Movable type (wood). Printing frame 23 x 17.4 cm. (average). Double-line borders all round. No vertical rules. Fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text, without printed kunten or reading marks. 13 lines to page, 20 characters to line.
Original vermilion (tan) front cover only, embossed with a geometric design. Title slip added at a later date, with manuscript gedai in a late-Edo hand: 新編剪燈餘話. Title at head of preface and mokuroku: 新編剪燈餘話. Title at head of each maki (本文) : Sentō yowa 剪燈餘話. Hashiragaki: Yowa 餘話 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The only movable type edition of this work.
Contents: A collection of 22 stories, chiefly dealing with the supernatural.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003903321
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003903321
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100157409877.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1615
- End Date:
- 1630
- Date Range:
- [1615-1630]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good, apart from minor worm damage (unrepaired) in upper and lower margins, and soiled first folio. Most folios are split at fold along fore-edge, but only fol. 1 has been re-backed.
Impression: Sharp and clear, showing little sign of type wear.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, 相州大住郡栗原保國寺, on first page of mokuroku 目録. Oblong red seal, Shisendō 詩仙堂 (seal of Ishikawa Jōzan 石川丈山) on first page of maki 2, 3, 4 and 5 (very faintly impressed). Also three unidentified red seals on first page of maki 1 (序).
Manuscript notes: Some shubiki and kutōten, and a few interlinear textual notes, in red. These are referred to in a shikigo written in red ink, dated Genroku 8 元禄八年, on the last page of maki 5. This shikigo reads: 元禄八乙亥初冬書林某以新刋餘話七冊呈送予依以愚本校合異同點句讀 ／ 于時倍風邪痔疾懶殘疎慵塗沫無常後日俟重校矣.
- Former Internal References:
- 15331.e.6
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). A. Chinese works 漢籍 7. Chinese literature 中国文学
- Publications:
- Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 390, 833, pl. 228; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, p. 177; Tenri toshokan kisho mokuroku 天理図書館稀書目録, vol. 3, p. 498; Shina gakugei daijii 支那学芸大辞彙, p. 734.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)