Goseibai shikimoku [chū] 御成敗式目 [注]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.59.d.10
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1624-1644]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Minimal worming, otherwise good. Impression: An early impression, shozurt or near. Seals of ownership: Two red seals, one oblong, one square, on fol. 1a. Two larger red seals, one circular, one square, on fol. 80a. Manuscript notes: One brief note only, in red ink, in upper margin of fol. 21a: 承久年中兵乱之事.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: A corporate compilation, traditionally attributed to Hōjō Yasutoki 北條泰時, 1183-1242. Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Tsurugaya Kyūbē, n.d. [Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . Mokki on fol. 80b reads: 洛陽四条坊門 ／ 敦賀屋久兵衛. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in western style. ff. 80. 27.4 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 19.8 x 16.9 cm. Single-line borders, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed kunten and kaeriten. 8 lines to page (large ji, main text) and 16 lines to page (small ji, commentary), 14 characters to line. Original chestnut-brown front cover, back cover lacking, within western style half-leather binding. Renewed title slip on left, handwritten in late-Edo period. Gedai: Jōei shikimoku 貞永式目. Naidai: Goseibai shikimoku 御成敗式目. Hashiragaki: Shikimoku chū 式目注 + folio no. Edition: Apparently the only pre-Meiji printed edition of this commentary (see Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, vol. 3, p. 472). Other undated copies quoted in Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録 (e.g. in Naikaku Bunko, Tōyō Bunko (Iwasaki) and Tōhoku Daigaku) may well belong to the same Kan'ei edition. Contents: An annotated edition of Goseibai shikimoku, or Jōei shikimoku 貞永式目, text in larger type interspersed with commentary in smaller type. Name of commentator unknown.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.

Other 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 11. Law, government, administration and economics 法制・政治・行政・経済 a. Law 法制

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 329; Goseibai shikimoku kenkyū 御成敗式目研究, pp. 557-9.