Bonkan taieishū 梵漢對映集 [梵漢対映集]

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 16010.b.3
  • Dates of Creation
      1645
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1 volume 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.

Scope and Content

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.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Rev. Andrew Patton, Ballymena 7 April 1906.

Other 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

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 10, p. 217.