Kokon rekidai hyōdai chūshaku jūku shiryaku tsūkō 古今歷代標題註釋十九史略通考 [古今歴代標題註釈十九史略通考]

Variant title: Jūku shiryaku tsūkō 十九史略通考. Variant title: Kokon rekidai jūku shiryaku tsūkō 古今歷代十九史略通考. Author/compiler: Yu Jin 余進, writer of commentary and compiler of maki 8. Author of original text of maki 1-7: Zeng Xianzhi 曾先之. Imprint: N.p., Shutō 守藤 (=Shutō Shūun 守藤集雲), Genna 2, 1616. Kango by the publisher Shutō, on unnumbered folio following batsubun at end ot maki: 8, reads: 吾山二三子追慕朝鮮 ／ 國之意匠頃僦工布列 ／ 一刋字於一板印寫于十 ／ 九史略者一百餘部矣 ／ 大槪聚數本挍讎參差 ／ 訛謬眞贋詳略而式從 ／ 其宜矣庶幾博施薄散 ／ 要令宇内之人知諸史 ／ 端末而已 ／ 元和第二曆丙辰書雲令辰 ／ 惠山 守藤誌焉[印]「守藤」. Description: 8 kan, formerly in 14 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. Maki 1-6 are each divided into 2 satsu, jō 上 and ge 下. (Satsu 1-maki 1 上) ff. 2 (序), 9 (目録 and 総括),1 (凡例), 34; (satsu 2-maki 1 下) ff. 62; (3-maki 2 上) ff. 58; (4-maki 2 下) ff. 49; (5-maki 3 上) ff. 59; (6-maki 3 下) ff. 31; (7-maki 4 上) ff. 33; (8-maki 4 下) ff. 49; (9-maki 5 上) ff. 59; (10-maki 5 下) ff. 48; (11-maki 6 上) ff. 53; (12-maki 6 下) ff. 51; (13-maki 7) ff. 52; (14-maki 8) ff. 25, 1 (batsu 跋), [1] (kango). 28.8 x 20.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type, except for final kango blockprinted in gyōsho script. Printing frame 25.8 x 17.3 cm. (average). Double-line borders above and below text, with an additional border 1 cm. below upper edge of leaf. Single-line borders at inner edge of each leaf. Vertical rules between columns. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without kunten. 9 lines to page (double for commentary), 18 characters to line. Headnotes, also printed from movable type, in upper margins. Original dark brown front cover of satsu 1 only, with blank title slip added later, partly obscuring manuscript gedai: 十九史略 共拾四冊. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Shiryaku 史略 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. biki and a few headnotes. Edition: Japanese reprint, from newly cut type, of a Korean edition published in Wanli 10 万暦十年 (1582) from a copy in the 弘文館;, with batsubun by the Korean 金睟 at end of maki 8. (A Korean edition with the same batsubun dated 1582 is also in the BL, 15296. e. 5.) The present edition contains a blockprinted kango by Shutō (quoted under Imprint above), indicating that the work was published in Kyōto, no doubt at the Tōfukuji 東福寺 where Shutō resided from 1615 to 1621. Contents: A digest of the 18 standard histories of China from earliest times to the Song period, originally compiled by Zeng Xianzhi 曾先之 (Chinese title: Shiba shilüe 十八史略), with an additional volume by Yu Jin 余進 covering Yuan history. The whole edited with commentary by Yu Jin.

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Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).A. Chinese works 漢籍 4. History and biography 歴史•伝記

Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 360, 382, 724, 825; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 2, pp. 58-9; Zushoryō tenseki kaidai, kanseki hen 図書寮典籍解題・漢籍篇, p. 136; Shina gakugei daijii 支那学芸大辞彙, p. 516.