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16103.c.16
- Record Id:
- 032-003907519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907519
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122616729.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16103.c.16
- Title:
- Ritsugen hakki 律原發揮 [律原発揮]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Nakane Genkei 中根元珪, also known as Nakane Akira 中根璋, 1662-1733.
Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Umemura Yahaku (=Yaemon 彌右衞門), Genroku 5, 1692. Kanki on fol. 46a reads: 元禄五年歳次壬申冬十月十七日 ／ 雒陽五條橋陌書林梅村彌白藏.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 2 (序), 2 (目録), 46. 26.4 x 18.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.4 x 14.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 9 lines to page, 18 characters to line.
Original dull yellow front cover only, with original printed title slip. Gedai: 律原發揮. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: 律 (度, 量, 衡) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The only recorded pre-modern edition.
Contents: A treatise on the mathematics of music, introducing and discussing the Chinese 12-tone scale, followed by additional material on measurement in general, particularly land measurement and surveying.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907519
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907519
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1692
- End Date:
- 1692
- Date Range:
- 1692
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent.
Impression: Slightly atozuri, but still sharp and clear.
Illustrations: Sumizuri diagrams in-text illustrating scales and methods of calculating measurement.
Seals of ownership: Two red seals, one circular, one inkoku incorporating a white dragon on a red ground, on first page of preface.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from I. Summers, bookseller, 5 August 1861.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). C. Japanese works 和書 14. Physical sciences 自然科学 a. Mathematics 数学
- Publications:
- Kokusho kaidai 国書解題, p. 2014; text reprinted in Nihon keizai taiten 日本経済大典, vol. 4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)