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"Collection of Keprints of Chi Shih An." ( ^ £ ^ H ^). 



Published in 1916. 



This is in six volumes. The texts are lithographed. 

 Volume One gives a reproduction of the explanatory text of 

 the Shang Shu which was found at Tun-huang and also a 

 fragmentary Taoist text from the same place. This is follow- 

 ed by the text of a book published first in 1029 on the 

 meaning of musical notations. The second volume contains 

 a reprint of a book published also during the reign of the 

 Emperor Jen Tsung treating of important methods used 

 during the Ch'i Dynasty. The methods referred to are those 

 employed in arboriculture. The third volume is devoted to 

 an album of paintings with descriptive text on the opposite 

 pages. The paintings are of various seashore scenes in the 

 lives of two brothers who were engaged in the manufac- 

 ture of salt. The album is called Ao P'o T'u, 3 * "The Eaging 

 Waves." The copy described is a reproduction from the 

 Yung Lo Ta Tien of a painting made in 1334 during the last 

 days of the Yuan Dynasty. 



The fourth volume reproduces a manuscript of the 

 K'ai Yuan period which is dated a.d. 718. It consists of 

 comments on the Materia Medica — pen ts'ao, which, it will 

 be remembered, was revised and enlarged during the T'ang 

 Dynasty. The fifth volume reproduces two manuscripts: 

 the first is on divination by stalks and by tortoise shell, the 

 second is a compendium by the Buddhist teacher San 

 Tsang. 37 The sixth and last volume contains two specimens 

 of Sung Dynasty block printing. The first is a guide to the 

 life of Mandjusri, and the second is a Buddhist fragmentary 

 manuscript recording the way in which the teacher San 

 Tsang obtained his copy of the law. 



"Explanation of the Text of the Stone Drums." 

 I #!££#$)• Published in 1916. 

 The author in his introduction refers to frequent dis- 

 cussions as to this text which he had with Wang Wen-shao, 

 and Shen Po-hsi; and to his obtaining a copy of the bung 

 Dvnastv rubbing made by Chia Hsiu T;ang (¥ * £) and 

 also of "the work on the subject by Ku len-wu 38 who wrote 

 at the close of the Ming Dynasty. The author compared 

 these two with the later work of Yuan Yuan and came to the 

 conclusion that the explanations of Juan and his reproduc- 

 tion of the text were the most reliable. Even Yuan s text 

 however, needs correction in some places and the purpose of 



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