| Date | 1527 |
| Publish_location | --- |
| Publisher | --- |
| Collection | ARSI |
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| Language | Chinese 中文 |
| Record_type | Book |
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| Shelf | ARSI |
| Call Number | NOT HELD. DESCRIPTION ONLY |
| Description | 15 in 16 ; 20.6 x 14.2 cm. |
| Note | "...posthumous name Wenzhuang; b. Jul. 23, 1453; d. Jan. 13, 1509"--OCLC name authority (Chinese)
JapSin I, 15 The cover bears an inscription in Latin: “4 ll. [libri] classici, alia ed. (t. 15), 24 x 15.”The title page gives the author, title and place of publication: 蔡虛齊先生手著 | 四書蒙引 | 大業堂藏板. There is a preface by Lin Xiyuan 林希元, zi 次崖, dated 9 September 1527 (嘉靖丁亥中秋日). This is followed by Cai Qing’s own preface, dated 10 August 1504 (弘治甲子歲七月朔). At the beginning of the first juan the name of the reviser is given (Song Zhaoyue), followed by those of the proofreaders: Qin Zhixuan and Zhang Changgeng 門人秦之璇石友前張長庚白生甫較 (the word 前 must be a misprint of the word 甫). Song Zhaoyue came from Putian 莆田 (Fujian), but originally from Jieyang 揭陽 (Guangdong). Wu Xizhou of Anfu (Jiangxi) 安副伍希周, a jinshi of 1514, collated 較正 juan 2, revised 重訂 juan 3 and Lin Xiyuan collated juan 4. The Lunyu (juan 5–8) was collated by Lin Xiyuan. The Book of Mencius (juan 9–15, eight ce) had different collators and revisers: juan 9, 10 and 14 were collated by Wu Xizhou and juan 11–13 by Lin Xiyuan; juan 15 was revised by Song Zhaoyue and collated by Zhang Yunhong and Zhou Sili 門人章允鋐君碩甫周嗣鯉躍先甫校. There are ten columns in each half folio with twenty-seven characters to each column. For annotations there are only twenty-six characters to each column. The square printing types seem to indicate a late Ming edition. Juan 15a and b, however, are printed in the standard script of handwriting. Folio 1 of ce 16 is misplaced after folio 2. Cai Qing (1453–1508), was a native of Jinjiang 晉江 (Fujian). He obtained the jinshi degree in 1484. Later he became chancellor of the Directorate of Education 國子監祭酒 of Nanjing; cf. Mingshi 明史, juan 282 and Huang Zongxi 黃宗羲 (1610–1695), Mingru xue'an 明儒學案, juan 46. He is said to have spent the best part of his life on two books: the Sishu mengyin and the Yijing mengyin 易經蒙引. He was a follower of Zhu Xi’s teaching and was considered to be an orthodox Confucian scholar. In his preface Cai Qing tells us that he lost the first draft of this book. He then started to rewrite it by recalling from memory what he had written, adding at the same time some new annotations. Later he recovered the first manuscript. When he compared the two drafts he found that more than half of the material overlapped. However, some of the conclusions he had made differed one from the other. Since he had no time to make all the necessary corrections, he entitled his book (Sishu) mengyin chugao (四書) 蒙引初稿 (First draft of an introduction for beginners [to the Four Books]). Lin Xiyuan (ca. 1480–ca. 1560), a native of Tongan 同安 (Fujian) and a jinshi of 1517, also wrote a book about the Four Books in which he amended Zhu Xi’s commentary not in order to criticize, but to support his interpretation. The amended version he entitled Sishu cunyi 四書存疑 (DMB 1:921; NBC, p. 37). The Naikaku Bunko owns a Ming edition (preface of 1635) of the Sishu mengyin, revised by Song Zhaoyue (NBC, p. 36). Cf. Courant 2840–2843 (réédition non daté de Song Tchao-yo, surnom Eul-fou, de Kie-ling). The edition described in ch. 36 of the Siku tiyao dates from the Jiajing period. Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 14-16. |
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