ABSTRACT
This SKPY is a Ming block-print edition. The character script is modeled after the Sung style and there are several inscriptions at the head of the f irs t chüan. [In the upper space, we read: ] TtCollated and edited by Hsia-i koT ’ 霞 璘 蘭 故 釘 ;3 [and in the lower space: J TTCompiled and commented on by Wenling Cho-wu L i Chih of the Ming: 明 通 ?I 要 I 李 赘 锊 ï ; "Edited by Ning-yeh Wu TsTung-hsien of Hsin-tu : ÍP 章 i f
暴 今 t も 爹 f 了 ，TTCollated and reviewed by Hsien-lang Ho Wei-jan of W u - lin :机 方 本 ィ ね 郎 何 把 技 間 .4 The book consists of 36 chuan巷 and is bound in 13 ts ’eflfr . It contains ” San-huang wu-ti chiTt 三 宣 玉 夺 え 己 [Annals of the Three ” Huang” and the Five TTT iM] ; 5 "Hsia chi” 1 jf•己 [Annals of Hsia]; ” Shang chi” 裔 紀 [Annals of Shang](ch.1 ) ;MChou chi” )U 紀 [Annals of Chou]; (ch. 2; ch. 3); MChTin chi” 祟太己[An nals of Chfin ]; 6 TTHou-ChTin chiTj [ 秦 纪 [Annals of Later ChTin](ch. 4); TTHan chiTTi 奚烹己[Annals of Han](ch. 5 to ch. 9); TTTung-Han chin 象 決 [Annals of Eastern H an](ch.10 to ch. 12); "Hou-Han chi ÍZj [Annals of Later Han] (ch. 13); TTChin chi” 音 、冬•己 [Annals of C h in ](ch .14，ch. 15); MSung chiM 象 紀 [Annals of Sung]; MChTi chi fu Pei-chTao Wei” 齊 紀 附
Northern Dynasty]; TTChTen chi fu Pei-chTao Chou-ChTi n陳 紀 M 3匕 如 )f\ 齋 [Annals of ChTen with Appendage of Chou and ChTi of the Northern Dynasty]; MSui chiTtp | 己 [Annals of Sui] (ch. 16); tTT Tang ch iM^ 》、gj [Annals of T ’ang](ch.17 to ch. 25); TTHou-Liang chi fu ChTi-tanTT 後梁ケ己附祭 4^ [Annals of Later Liang with Appendage of ChTi-tan ]; TtHou-T!ang chiM ネ条潜 糸己[Annals of Later T fang]; ” Hou-Chin chi fu Ch’i-tan” 夂己 W 实 抖 [Annals of Later Chin with Appendage of ChTitan ]; nHou-Han ch iTH 、}莫i 己 [Annals of L a te r Han; i.e ., South ern Han]; Hou-Chou c h i U f J i t » [Annals of L a te r Chou] (ch. 26); MSung chi fu Liao chi 家 S•己附逢め [Annals of Sung with Appendage of Liao](ch. 27); TtSung chi” 象 í•己 [Annals of Sung](ch. 28 to ch. 32); TTNan-Sung chi fu Chin chin 南 宋 兒 附 全 ÍK己 [Annals of Southern Sung with Appendage of Chin] (ch. 33); MNan-Sung chi” 条 家 己 [Annals of Southern Sung] (ch. 34 to ch. 35): tTY\ian chi” 元 4己 [Annals of Yiian](ch. 36). The book is 26 cm. long, 16.3 cm. wide, and each of the [p r in t ing] frames is 20 cm. long and 13 cm. wide. It has a singlelined edge with a blank space [between the two half fo lios] on which is written Shih-kang pT ing-yao with the indication of the chuan and folio number. The frontispiece of the book contains a preface by Wu Tsfung-hsien of Hsin-tu, claiming that the original manuscript TTwas obtained from [a certain] tao -hsüeh scholar of Wu-men 晏 門 [i.e ., Wu -hsien, modern Kiangsu].TT At the end of the preface [the half folio ] is inscribed: fW ritten at Hsia-i ko in the autumn of the kuei-chTou 癸 丑 year of Wanl i [16131” ； it also bears the marking of two seals: ”Wu yin TsTung-hsientT 要 ^ ? 從 ^先 [Wu TsTung-hsienTs sea l], and uNir^-yehTÎ 窜 好 [i.e ., Wu TsTung - hsienfs style -name]. Be cause of the great age, some folios had been damaged and fallen apart because of bookworm damage, but [the damage was not done to] the vita l portions [of the book].
