Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Or.64.b.5
- Record Id:
- 032-003953068
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953068
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129491046.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.64.b.5
- Title:
- Bonmōkyō koshakki, kan ge 梵網經古迹記巻下 [梵網経古跡記巻下]
- Scope & Content:
-
Author/compiler: Taehyŏn 太賢, Korean Buddhist monk from Silla, b. 753.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [mid-Kamakura period, c. 1250-60] . See under Edition below.
Description: 1 roll (kansubon 巻子本), originally in orihon form, now rebacked and made up as a roll. In a wooden box. Width of each orihon fold: 15 cm. Height: 27.2 cm. Kan ge 巻下 only, comprising 本 section and lacking matsu 末.
Blockprint. Printing frame (height) 22.2 cm. No borders. No rules between columns of text.
Kanbun text, with manuscript kutōten in red and kunten in black katakana, dating from late-Kamakura or early-Muromachi period. 8 lines to each orihon fold, 21 characters to line.
Protective cover of modern brown brocade, probably added when the roll was rebacked. Ivory rollers. No title slip. Title from naidai. Kōzo paper.
Edition: Saidaiji-ban 西大寺版. Two early dated editions of this work are recorded, both printed at the Saidaiji. The present copy, incomplete and lacking a kanki, seems likely to belong to the earlier edition of the two printed in Shōka 3 正嘉三年 (1259) and containing the following kanki: 正嘉三年二月十八日終寫功訖 ／ 執筆沙門慈政. The later edition, with kanki dated Shōan 4 正安四年 (1302), has only 5 lines to the half-fold..
Contents: A commentary on the Bonmōkyō 梵網經 (Brahmajāla-sūtra), a basic scripture of the Vinaya sects concerning the Buddha's precepts for the moral conduct of monks and nuns. Early printed editions of this and other commentaries on the Bonmōkyō are confined to volume 2 巻下, since the contents of the first volume are less relevant to Vinaya teaching. Volume 2 consists of two sections, hon 本 and matsu 末, of which the latter is missing from this copy.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003953068", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or.64.b.5: Bonmōkyō koshakki, kan ge 梵網經古迹記巻下 [梵網経古跡記巻下]" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953068
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953068
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1260
- Date Range:
- [1250-1260]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Condition: Fair. Extensive worm damage repaired by rebacking. Paper soiled and worn in places, showing evidence of heavy use.
Impression: Atozuri, though blocks do not show excessive signs of wear.
Seals of ownership: None.
Manuscript notes: Numerous textual notes in black, interlinear and in upper and lower margins, some of them contemporary with kunten noted above. Others, in black and red, are probably of early-Edo date. Additional notes at head of text. At end of roll a late-Muromachi signature Kōgen 公玄.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Kōbunsō, 15 March 1974.
- 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 2. Basic mahayana scriptures 主要大乗経典
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 10, p. 232; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 32; Nihon kokan shomoku 日本古刊書目, pp. 47-9, 96, 324; Nara kangyōshi 寧楽刊経史, pp. 183-4; Hōsho yoroku 訪書余録, vol. 4, p. 6 and pl. 14; Nara kokyōsen 寧楽古経選, vol. 2, pl. 66 (Shōan 4, 1302 edition).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)