Shittan renjōshū 悉曇連聲集 [悉曇連声集]

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/149
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1668
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. Impression: Slightly atozuri. Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, and large red seal 不許外出緣山演教室, on first page of text.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Chōzen 澄禪, Shingon monk, d. 1680. Imprint: N.p., Kanbun 8, 1668. Oku reads: 寛文戊申秋八月日書 ／ 廻向無上大菩提 沙門澄禪 悔焉. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in western style. ff. 9. 26 x 18.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.5 x 7.4 cm. Single-line borders with fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed kunten, mixed with some siddham script. 10 lines to page, 14 characters to line. Original dark blue covers, with handwritten title slip on left, within a western style cloth binding. Manuscript gedai: 悉曇連聲集全. Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Renjō 蓮声 + folio no. Edition: Earliest recorded edition. Followed by a reprint, according to Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, in Enpō 9 (1681). Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録 gives date of reprint (or new edition) as Enpō 8 (1680). Contents: On the sounds of Sanskrit expressed in siddham script.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Rev. Andrew Patton, Ballymena 7 April 1906.

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. 355.