Libu zhigao 禮部志稿 ..... "Draft monograph of the Ministry of Rites containing administrative and ceremonial regulations, imperial edicts, memorials, etc., concerning the Ministry of Rites and its subordinate offices, tables of higher officials who served there from the beginning of the dynasty to the early Tianqi period, with some biographical data, biographies of the more important officials, and treatises (備考) on ceremonies, rites, offerings, examinations, ceremonial regulations, relations with foreign peoples, public institutions like temples and schools, etc. for which the Ministry of Rites was responsible. Most treatises cover the period from the beginning of the dynasty to the end of Longqing only .... contains materials not included in the Shilu, Huidian, and Jili .... completed Taichang 1 (1620) but the tables supplemented to Tianqi 4 (1624) ... " Cf. Franke, W. Introduction to the sources of Ming history, p. 181.