is said to be taken from a manuscript of 42 years earlier : possession of H'.f!:.:E Pak Honok, with reference also to a manuscript in the possession of Yi My6ngson. The spelling some characters are also given. Series, I 399-412. The introductory or in the catalogue of the Tfiyo Bunko. M' i; Wanwol Hoemaengyon, manuscript, 180 vols. [Palace] +.lj)j'i Yi My6ngs6n: Chos6n Munhak Sa Choson Munhak states that there is a copy of

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This is the longest known novel in Korean. Two students of Seoul University took turns, I have been told, to read right through it aloud to each other some years ago, and there have been newspaper reports that it has been recently investigated again, but nothing has been published on it yet. Courant, 920, has

~~~ '<'J :fu.Yl 'i'M Wanw61 Hoemaeng, "Pact (of Love) under the Moon" (doubtful title only), and Kim Kidong, 597, lists the same as a love story in Korean set in China, existing in manuscript(s). He gives his source "4"~fiSE Yi Pyonggi introduced", but I have not found any reference in any of Yi Py6nggi's published works.