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16010.b.3
- Record Id:
- 032-003948690
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003948690
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124928638.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16010.b.3
- Title:
- Bonkan taieishū 梵漢對映集 [梵漢対映集]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Ryōjō 良定, Jōdo monk and founder of the Hōrinji 法輪寺 monastery, also known as Taichū 袋中, 1552-1639.
Imprint: N.p., Sugita Kanbēnojō, Shōhō 2, 1645. Mokki in a decorative frame on fol. 48b of maki 下 reads: 正保乙酉孟夏仲旬 ／ 杉田勘兵衛尉開板.
Description: 2 kan, 1 satsu. (Maki 上) ff. 72 (folios 2 and 3 are followed by 2 further folios numbered 又二 and 又三, making a total of 74 folios in all) ; (maki 下) ff. 48. 28.2 x 19.1 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.6 x 15.9 cm. (average). Double-line borders, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten, interspersed with some siddham characters and longer passages in siddham script. 8 lines to page, 17 characters to line.
Original chestnut-brown covers, with original printed title slip on left. Gedai: 梵漢對映集本末合本 全. Title from naidai at head of maki 上. Hashiragaki: Taieishū jō (ge) 對映集上 (下) + folio no.
Edition: The only pre-modern edition recorded.
Contents: A comparative study of Sanskrit and Chinese, languages and scripts, as vehicles for Buddhist scriptural texts. Unsigned preface is dated Genna 9 元和九年 (1623) on fol. mata 又 3.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003948690
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003948690
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1645
- End Date:
- 1645
- Date Range:
- 1645
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good. Minor worm damage, chiefly confined to margins.
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Seals of ownership: Large circular red seal, 瑞譽大僧正御牌所書籍外出不詳, on first page.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Thomas Watters (1840-1901), Sinologist and member of the British Consular Service in China and Korea.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the British Museum from Rev. Andrew Patton, Ballymena 7 April 1906.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). B. Buddhist works 仏書 1. General works 一般
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 10, p. 217.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)