Jōyuishikiron jukki, kan dai-3 matsu 成唯識論述記巻第三末

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  • Reference
      GB 59 Or.74.cc.15
  • Dates of Creation
      [1170-1180]
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1scroll Condition: Fair, considering its early date. Extensive worm damage, affecting a few text areas, skilfully repaired but without total rebacking. Impression: For the most part sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Hōrei bunko 寶玲文庫 (ex-libris Frank Hawley), at head of text, below naidai. Manuscript notes: Two shikigo at end of roll, following the closing title: the first in red ink signed by the monk Keiin 慶尹 and dated Kennin 3 (1203), the second in black ink signed by Jitsuei 實永 and dated Genkyū 3 (1206). (1) 建仁三年癸亥七月十四日庚寅申時點了 慶尹之. (2) 元久三年二月十七日儲得了 實永之. These two inscriptions are repeated, with some minor differences (or errors) in transcription, and in a much more recent hand (late Edo period ?) on a strip of new paper pasted on the mikaeshi inside the end-cover, followed by a signature in gyōsho / sōsho: 心空 謹記. As well as the shōten noted above, a very few textual notes in red and black have been added, also dating from early 13th century.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Kuiji 窺基, 632-82. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Nara, Kōfukuji 興福寺, late-Heian period, c. 1170-80] . No colophon, but see the two shikigo transcribed under manuscript notes below. Description: 1 kan (of 10, sometimes 20, kan), 1 roll (巻子本) in an old wooden box. Incomplete copy, maki 3 only, made up of 47 sheets of kōzo paper, each 50-51 cm. long and 26 cm. in height. From the evidence of numerous folds in the paper, and their positioning at regular intervals, it is clear that this volume was formerly folded in senpūyō style and was converted to roll form in comparatively recent times. Conceivably, it may have originated as a roll and then folded in orihon (senpūyō) style for easier handling. Blockprint. Printing frame (height) 24-24.5 cm. No borders. No vertical rules between columns. Kanbun text, with shōten (声点) added in red ink throughout, in the year Kennin 3 建仁三年 (1203). (See shikigo transcribed under manuscript notes below.) 24 lines to sheet, 21 characters to line. Protective end-cover of brown paper, not original but added in early Edo period (c. Kan'ei period ?). Old black-lacquered wooden roller, with traces of red lacquer on ends. No title slip. No gedai. Title from naidai, which is followed at head of text by: 大乗基撰. Edition: Kasuga-ban, among the earliest in this category. Printed in Nara, almost certainly at the Kōfukuji. All late-Heian editions of this work which have survived are fragmentary, and none bears a printed date. (Indeed the only surviving example of a Heian-period Kasuga-ban with printed kanki is the Jōyuishikiron 成唯識論 of Kanji 2 寛治二年 (1088), the earliest authenticated example of Nara printing.) Isolated volumes, or small groups of volumes, of the present work, held by the Kōfukuji, Hōryūji, Kōyasan Shōchiin, and Nikkō Tenkaizō (Rinnōji), contain dated manuscript shikigo ranging from Hōan 4 保安四年 (1123) to Yōwa2 養和二年 (1182). Since the BL copy of maki 3 (matsu 末) bears two handwritten shikigo dated Kennin 3 建仁三年 (1203) and Genkyū 3 元久三年 (1206), it is fair to assume that the volume was printed at a date some 20 or 30 years earlier than the shikigo, i.e. c. 1170-80. This is supported by the printing style (hanshiki), the paper used and the pale colour of the ink, all of which are characteristic of late-Heian printing. Comparison of this volume with the copy of maki 3 (matsu) owned by the Hōryūji and reproduced in pl. 7 of Nara kokyōsen, vol. 2, 寧楽古経選 shows that the two belong to different editions. Contents: Commentary on the Jōyuishikiron (Skt. Vijñaptimātratā-siddhi-śāstra, Ch. Chengweishilun), a basic scripture of the Hossō sect 法相宗, compiled by Dharmapāla and translated into Chinese by Xuanzang 玄奘 in 659. Each maki of the commentary is in two parts: hon 本 and matsu 末.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Kōbunsō, 28 April 1971.

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 3. Hossō sect 法相宗

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 6, p. 21; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 28-30; Nara kangyōshi 寧楽刊経史, pp. 96-7, 103, 126, 226, pl. 6-7, 11, 12; Nara kokyōsen 寧楽古経選, vol. 2, pp. 1-3, pl. 1,7; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 199; Kōbunsō taika koshomoku 弘文別荘待賈古書目, no. 37, p. 2 (describing the present copy); Nikkōzan 'Tenkaizō' shuyō kosho kaidai 日光山「天海蔵」主要古書解題, p. 43.