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Or.59.aa.1/3
- Record Id:
- 040-003896171
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882029
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121993678.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100187872793.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.59.aa.1/3
- Title:
- Qincvxv [Qincuxu]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant titles:Kinkushū 金句集.
Author/compiler: Unknown. TheChristian convert Fabian may have been involved in adapting and annotating thework.
Imprint: [Amakusa, 1593.] Nocolophon specific to this work. See imprints for Feiqe no monogatari and Esopono fabvlas, with which the work is bound.
Description: 1 kan, bound inwestern style together with Feiqe no monogatari and Esopo no fabvlas; continuouspagination. pp. 507-554, [42] (glossary of 'difficult' words in the twopreceding works, headed: CONO FEIQE MO / nogatarito, Esopono Fabu / lasnovchino funbet xinicu / qi cotobano yauarague). 16.2 x 10.6 cm.
Movable type (printed on aEuropean printing press brought to Japan by the Jesuits). Printing frame 13 x7.4 cm. No borders.
Text in romanised Japanesethroughout, without kanji or kana. 24-25 lines to page, plus running titleabove: QINCVXV + page no.
Edition: The only known printedversion of this work. A number of manuscript versions exist, the earliest beingwritten in 1520 titled Kinbōshū 金榜集.
Contents: A selection of 282maxims and moral dicta, chiefly taken from Chinese Confucian classics(including Shisho 四書 and Shichisho 七書 see Xixo andXixxo in title), arranged in alphabetical order and followed by explanatorycomments in romanised colloquial Japanese of the 16th century. Text of theKinkushū is followed by 42 unnumbered pages containing a printed glossary of'difficult' words in Feiqe no monogatari and Esopo no fabvlas, as noted underDescription above. This in turn is followed by a handwritten Japanese-Portuguesevocabulary. On p. 554, headed GOIO. / IIN, GVI, REI, CHI, XIN, is a briefexplanation of five terms used in Confucian philosophy: 仁, 義, 礼, 智, 信.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882029
040-003896171 - Is part of:
- Or.59.aa.1 : Feiqe no monogatari ; Esopo no fabvlas ; Qincvxv
Or.59.aa.1/3 : Qincvxv [Qincuxu] - Hierarchy:
- 032-003882029[0003]/040-003896171
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or.59.aa.1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100185602542.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1593
- End Date:
- 1593
- Date Range:
- 1593
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, despite frequenthandling.
Impression: Type showscomparatively little sign of wear.
Seals of ownership: OctagonalBritish Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on last page of printed glossary andmanuscript vocabulary.
Manuscript notes: 32 unnumberedfolios after end of printed glossary, containing a clearly written vocabularyof Japanese words explained in Portuguese. Undated.
Binding: The whole book was rebound in 1928, in brown half-leather. Original binding no longer survives. Text printed on ganpi paper, folded in-octavo.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Unknown. Probably acquired in the latter half of the 18th century, but not from the Kaempfer Collection.
- 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 5. Literature - fiction 国文－小説 d. Gunki monogatari 軍記物語
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 73; The Jesuit mission press in Japan, 1591-1610; Kirishitan-ban no kenkyū きりしたん版の研究, p. 134 and passim; Habian-shō Kirishitan-ban Heike monogatari ハビヤン抄キリシタン版平家物語. Facsimile reproduction of text in: Amakusa-bon Heike monogatari ken'an 天草本ヘイケモノガタリ検案 and Nifon no cotoba to ... Feiqe no monogatari. (Kirishitan-ban Amakusa-bon Heike monogatari キリシタン版天草本平家物語). See also the detailed bibliography in Kirishitan-ban no kenkyū above.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)