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16010.a.12
- Record Id:
- 032-003953137
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953137
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129645984.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16010.a.12
- Title:
- Shittan jiki 悉曇字記
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Zhiguang 智廣, Chinese monk, d. 806.
Imprint: N.p., Kanbun 9, 1669. Oku on fol. 28b reads: 寛文己酉仲秋日開焉釋澄禪.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, bound with a copy of Shittan renjōshū 悉曇連聲集 (see under Contents below) in 1 vol. western style. ff. 28. 25.9 x 18.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.5 x 14.7 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text, with printed kunten, kaeriten and kutōten, interspersed with siddham characters. 7 lines to page (large characters), 14 lines (smaller characters), 13 characters to line.
Dark blue front cover only, with printed title slip bearing gedai: 悉曇字記. Title from naidai and gedai. Hashiragaki: Jiki 字記 + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: According to Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, this is the second blockprinted edition of the Edo period, preceded by one in Kanbun 2 (1662) and by a number of pre-Edo editions. The earliest was a Kōya-ban dated Kōan 3 弘安三年 (1280).
Contents: An early Chinese work of instruction on the siddham script and its use in Buddhist literature, written in late-8th or early 9th century. Bound in with this work in the present copy is another copy of Chōzen's (澄禪) work on a similar subject, Shittan renjōshū 悉曇連聲集, published in Kanbun 8 (1668). (See description under this title, no. 187.)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953137
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953137
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1669
- End Date:
- 1669
- Date Range:
- 1669
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good, apart from cropping at top and bottom.
Impression: Blocks show some signs of wear, but not so much as might be expected from an impression taken, probably, in the early 19th century (i.e. before the edition of Tenpō 4 天保四年, 1833).
Seals of ownership: None.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.
- 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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 4, p. 347; Mikkyō daijiten 密教大辞典, vol. 2, p. 998.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866