Author: Wang Yuanqi 王原祁, 1642-1715

Peiwenzhai shuhua pu 佩文齊書畫譜
Date1984
Publish_locationBeijing 北京
PublisherBeijing Shi Zhongguo shudian 北京市中國書店
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition第1版
LanguageChinese 中文
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberNK3634.A2 P4 1984
Description5 v. (2, 4, 50, 2944 p.) ; 19 cm
NotePeiwenzhai shuhua pu 佩文齊書畫譜 / Wang Yuanqi deng zuanji 王原祁等纂輯.
Photoreprint of Saoye shanfang 掃葉山房 [1919] ed. Preface dated: Kangxi 康熙 47 [1708].
Each page represents 2 leaves of the original.
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SubjectPainting, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese
Shiwen 時文. [Jap-Sin II, 91]
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CollectionARSI
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
Record_typeBook (stitch-bound 線裝本)
Series
ShelfARSI
Call NumberNOT HELD. DESCRIPTION ONLY
Description1 ce.
NoteJapSin II, 91
Shiwen 時文.
By different authors.
Bamboo paper in one ce with a paper case. No date or place of publication.
The cover bears a Latin inscription: “Compositiones Litteraris in ordine ad examen.”
This book is a collection of eight legged essays (a special style of writing adopted by candidates during the civil service examinations of the Ming and Qing dynasties) and was intended as a model for students who were going to sit for government examinations. Among the authors there are some well known scholars such as Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 (1631–1694), Mao Jike 毛際可 (1633–1708), and Wang Yuanqi 王原祁 (1642–1715). The essays were mostly written in the beginning of the Qing dynasty.
The middle of each folio gives the theme of the essay. There are ten columns to each half folio, with sixteen characters to each column and twenty-five in the commentary. Each essay has been punctuated and annotated in red ink. At the end of each essay there is a comment with the name of the commentator. Occasionally it gives where and when the essays were recorded. Some of these essay are written by hand in the standard script (kaishu 楷書).
The themes were taken from the Great Learning 大學, the Golden Mean 中庸, and the Analects 論語. The themes go as far as the first part of the Analects. It is possible that there was a second volume in which the themes were taken from the second part of the Analects and from Mencius 孟子.

Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 402.

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SubjectBaguwen 八股文--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 Civil service--China--Examinations--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911