Facsimile of Fragment of the Original Jade Chapters 影舊鈔卷子原本玉篇零卷 (1884)
1media/yupianlingjuan_thumb.jpg2020-12-02T19:14:20-08:00Tang Li94607ee88639079982d0344d02ff8ecdf7b6dc46309966Jade Chapters (Yupian 玉篇) is a dictionary of characters compiled in 543 by Gu Yewang 顧野王 (519–581) during the Liang 梁 dynasty (502–557). It follows the Explaining single-component Graphs and Analyzing compound Characters (Shuowen jiezi 說文解字) tradition to arrange Chinese characters by radicals (部首). The original version of Yupian was hand-copied during the Tang dynasty (618-907), but only a fragment is preserved and kept in Japan. Printed on traditional Japanese kozo paper, USC's copy is an exquisite facsimile edition of the Yan 言 radical section from the surviving fragment of the Tang manuscript. It was published by the diplomat Li Shuchang 黎庶昌 (1837-1897) while he served as Consul in Tokyo from 1881 to 1890.plain2021-01-12T17:19:38-08:00Link to the catalog record in the USC LibrariesTang Li94607ee88639079982d0344d02ff8ecdf7b6dc46