Shittan jiki myōryōbōki 悉曇字記明了房記

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16010.a.8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1656
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good. A clean copy with only minor worm damage in maki 2 and 4. Impression: Atozuri, from slightly worn blocks. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Shittan jiki shō 悉曇字記鈔 [悉曇字記抄]. Variant title: Shittan jiki kikigaki 悉曇字記聞書. Author/compiler: Attributed to Shonpan 信範, Shingon monk, fl. c. 1286, but authorship is not stated in book. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Asaka Kohē, Meireki 2, 1656. Kango on fol. 37b of maki 8 ends as follows: 明暦二丙申仲秋日 播州八正寺深覚房挍合之 ／ 角倉通二條上指物町 ／ 安積小兵衛開板. Description: 8 kan, formerly in 8 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 27; (2) ff. 37; (3) ff. 44; (4) ff. 35; (5) ff. 32; (6) ff. 23; (7) ff. 33; (8) ff. 37. 26.2 x 17.3 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.5 x 15.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders, with fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten, interspersed with siddham characters, 9 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Mid-blue front cover, possibly original, of first satsu, with printed title slip (lower part missing) bearing gedai: 悉曇明了房記. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Shittan Myōryōki 悉曇明了記 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: The only recorded edition under this title. Contents: A commentary on Shittan jiki 悉曇字記 (Ch. Xitan ziji) concerning the use of siddham script and phonology. (Note that this commentary in 8 kan is a different work from no. 181.) Text edited, according to kango, by the monk Jinkakubō 深覺房.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 4, p. 349.