KU K'AI-CHIH'S SCROLL 

 IN THE 



BRITISH MUSEUM 



JOHN C. FERGUSON, PH.D. 



In Adversaria Sinica, Series II, No. 1, is a paper entitled 

 "An Emperor on Ku K'ai-chih." It is said to be a joint 

 production of Dr. Herbert A. Giles and his son Dr. Lionel 

 Giles. The transcription of the text from the chirography of 

 the Emperor Ch'ien Lung into printed characters was made 

 by Dr. Lionel Giles ; the elucidation was a joint undertaking 

 of father and son and a certain biography was supplied by 

 Dr. Giles, Sr. 



The original text and a corrected transcription are 

 reproduced overleaf, the number of characters in each line 

 of the original text and its transcription being preserved. 



In the original text as printed in the Adversaria Sinica 

 the last three lines of the upper portion are reproduced on 

 the lower portion. This has been corrected in my trans- 

 cription. Unfortunately Dr. Lionel Giles has made serious 

 mistakes in his intepretation of the chirography of the Em- 

 peror Ch'ien Lung. Two of these mistakes are in column 21 

 of the original text. The third character in this column is 

 not Ku (SBC) as given by Giles but is yen ( H ) and the last 

 character of this column is not erh ( %) but is chii (Ms). In 

 column 24 the second character is not chun ( ^ ) but is 

 fu ( $£ ). The misreading of these three characters has led 

 to an incorrect translation of the text. In order to correct 

 these errors I give a new translation. 



