Raiki 禮記 [礼記]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/182
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1600-1624]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. Virtually free of worm damage or staining. Impression: Sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Ryokuseidō toshoshō 綠靜堂圖書章 (seal of Sugihara Shinsai 杉原心齋) and square red seal, Arima-shi sakugendō toshoki 有馬氏溯源堂圖書記, on first page of each former satsu (maki 1, 5, 9, 13 and 17). Manuscript notes: Kutōten in blue and red in maki 1-3 only. A few headnotes sparsely written in upper margins.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Commentary by Zheng Xuan 鄭玄 127-200. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1600-24] . No colophon. Description: 20 kan, formerly in 5 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. 27.4 x 20 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 23.4 x 17.9 cm. Double-line borders all round. Vertical rules between columns. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without kunten or kaeriten. 8 lines to page (large characters), 16 lines (small characters), 18 characters to line. Original vermilion front covers of satsu 1 and 2 only. Title slips added on left with manuscript gedai (mid-Edo period) : (1-maki 1) 禮記曲禮 (等) ･･･ 仁; (2-maki 5) 禮記月令等･･･ 義. Hashiragaki: Raiki maki no 1 (etc.) 禮記巻之一 (等) + folio no. In a modern western style half-leather binding. Edition: Of the two movable type editions cited in Kokatsujiban no kenkyū (p. 375), both undated and both with printed commentary, this corresponds to Type 2. Contents: Text of Liji 禮記, the Book of Rites, on ceremonies and ritual and on the development of Confucian philosophy, with commentary by Zheng Xuan 鄭玄.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

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

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).A. Chinese works 漢籍 2. Chinese classics 経書

Bibliography

Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 187, 375, 816, pl. 172-3; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 6, p. 189.