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Eastern Culture Nucleus: Chinese Rare Books in the USC Libraries

Excellent Rubbings of Stone Carvings 石墨鐫華 (1618)

This is a manuscript copy of a printed book with the same title from the forty-sixth year of the Wanli reign (萬曆四十六年 [1618]) of the Ming dynasty. It includes rubbings of steles from ancient times to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and focuses on the aesthetic evaluation of their calligraphy. The two ex libris seals, 馬硯珊收藏金石圖書記 and 馬書奎印 on the caption title page (卷端頁) of this manuscript are from Ma Shukui 馬書奎 (courtesy name 字 Yanshan 硯珊; awarded with juren 舉人 in 1828), a collector and connoisseur of epigraphy (金石學) in the late Qing dynasty.
Donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski. Date/Edition: 1618 | 萬曆四十六年.

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1. Reprint in the Year Yihai of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty of Collected Rhymes of the Initial Five Sounds 大明正德乙亥重刊改併五音集韻十五卷 (1515-1516) This rhyming dictionary was compiled by the phonologist (音韻學家) Han Daozhao 韓道昭 of the Jin 金 dynasty in 1212. It attempted to revise the earlier published Extended Rhymes (Guangyun 廣韻) of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), consolidating the rhyme schemes and reducing the overall number from 206 to 160.
  Donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski. Date/Edition: 1515-1516 | 明正德乙亥至丙子刻本.
2. Annotated Anthology of Mr. [Su] Dongpo's Poems 東坡先生詩集註三十二卷 (1606-1620) Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101; courtesy name 字 Zizhan 子瞻, literary name 號 Dongpo 東坡) was a preeminent scholar, writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, and statesman in the Northern Song dynasty. USC's copy is the original edition revised and published by Mao Wei 茅維 (1575-1640?; courtesy name 字 Xiaoruo 孝若), a historian, poet, and dramatist of the late Ming dynasty. The ex libris seals on the caption title page (卷端頁) of this book are from the donor Dr. Chow Tse-tsung 周策縱 (1916-2007), a world-famous scholar on the May Fourth Movement and The Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong lou meng 紅樓夢).
  Donated by Dr. Chow Tse-tsung. Date/edition: 1606 (Bingwu year of the Wanli reign 萬曆丙午)-1620 | 明萬曆間茅維刻本.
3. Spring and Autumn Annals - Commentary of Zuo 春秋左傳十五卷 (1616) Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu 春秋), one of the Five Classics (Wujing 五經 ) of Confucianism, is the first Chinese chronological history which covers the years from 722 BC to 479 BC. The Commentary of Zuo (Zuozhuan 左傳) contains more complete and rich accounts than the Chunqiu and thus has been regarded as the prime source of the ancient history of China. The Chunqiu and Zuozhuan were often edited together during the later years of the Ming dynasty. This USC's edition includes annotations by the Ming official and scholar Sun Kuang 孫鑛 (1543-1613; courtesy name 字 Yuefeng 月峰) and is an excellent example of two-color printing in black and red (朱墨套印) in the late Ming dynasty.
  Date: 1616 (Bingchen year of the Wanli reign 萬曆丙辰) . Edition: 朱墨套印本.
4. Excellent Rubbings of Stone Carvings 石墨鐫華 (1618) This is a manuscript copy of a printed book with the same title from the forty-sixth year of the Wanli reign (萬曆四十六年 [1618]) of the Ming dynasty. It includes rubbings of steles from ancient times to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and focuses on the aesthetic evaluation of their calligraphy. The two ex libris seals, 馬硯珊收藏金石圖書記 and 馬書奎印 on the caption title page (卷端頁) of this manuscript are from Ma Shukui 馬書奎 (courtesy name 字 Yanshan 硯珊; awarded with juren 舉人 in 1828), a collector and connoisseur of epigraphy (金石學) in the late Qing dynasty.
  Donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski. Date/Edition: 1618 | 萬曆四十六年.
5. The Collection of Songs among the Flowers 花間集四卷 (1620) 36
  The Collection of Songs among the Flowers (Huajian ji 花間集) is the earliest extant anthology of poetry in China, which includes poems by literati poets in the late Tang Dynasty (618-907). The collection has been considered as the precursor to the Chinese ci 詞 poetry (song lyrics) of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Donated by James Tang, USC's copy is an annotated edition by Tang Xianzhu 湯顯祖 (1550-1616), a prestigious Chinese playwright of the Ming dynasty who was contemporary with the renowned English dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and passed away in the same year. It was printed around 1620 according to the colophon (Gengshen year of the Wanli reign 萬曆庚申). This edition is an excellent example of two-color printing in black and red (朱墨套印) in the late Ming dynasty.
  Donated by James Tang. Colophon date: 1620 (Gengshen year of the Wanli reign 萬曆庚申).
  
  Further Reading:
  Shields, Anna M. Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian ji (Collection from among the Flowers). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  Tan, Tian Yuan, Paul Edmondson, and Shih-pe Wang, eds. 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.
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6. Selected Poems by Su Shi 東坡詩選十二卷 (1621) Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101; courtesy name 字 Zizhan 子瞻, literary name 號 Dongpo 東坡) was a preeminent scholar, writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, and statesman in the Northern Song dynasty. USC's copy is a selection of Su's poems by Tan Yuanchun 譚元春 (1586-1637; courtesy name 字 Youxia 友夏), a late Ming poet, writer, and literary critic who was one of the founders of the Jingling School (竟陵派).
  Donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski. Date/edition: 1621 (First year of the Tianqi reign 天啟元年) | 明天啟文盛堂刻本.
7. Miscellaneous Morsels from the South Slope of You Mount 酉陽雜俎二十卷 ; 酉陽雜俎續集十卷 (1628-1644) 20
  This miscellany was written by Duan Chengshi 段成式‎ (d. 863; courtesy name 字 Kegu 柯古), a poet, writer, and civil officer during the Tang dynasty. It includes a wide range of subjects, such as natural phenomena, dreams, Buddhist stories, social practices, Daoist immortals, flora and fauna, anecdotes, medical prescriptions, wine, and food. USC's copy was collated and printed by Mao Jin 毛晉 (1599-1659; courtesy name 字 Zijin 子晉), a prominent book collector and publisher during the late Ming and early Qing periods. It is part of the ninth series of his collectanea entitled Jindai Mishu 津逮祕書 (See 中國叢書綜録, I, p. 56).
  Donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski. Date/Edition: Chongzhen 崇禎 reign (1628-1644) | 明毛氏汲古閣刻本.
  
  Further Reading:
  Reed, Carrie E. "Motivation and Meaning of a 'Hodge-podge': Duan Chengshi's 'Youyang Zazu'."Journal of the American Oriental Society 123, no. 1 (2003): 121-45. DOI:10.2307/3217847.
  _____. A Tang Miscellany: An Introduction to Youyang Zazu. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.
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History 史部 Excellent Rubbings of Stone Carvings (Shimo juanhua 石墨鐫華) is a manuscript copy of a printed book with the same title from the forty-sixth year of the Wanli reign (萬曆四十六年 [1618]) of the Ming dynasty. It includes rubbings of steles from ancient times to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and focuses on the aesthetic evaluation of their calligraphy. USC's copy is donated by Dr. Peter Marie Suski and the two ex libris seals, 馬硯珊收藏金石圖書記 and 馬書奎印 on the caption title page (卷端頁) of the manuscript are from Ma Shukui 馬書奎 (courtesy name 字 Yanshan 硯珊; awarded with juren 舉人 in 1828), a collector and connoisseur of epigraphy (金石學) in the late Qing dynasty.
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