Examining the Four Handwritten Copies of Du Gong Bu Ji

Abstract

In the early Qing dynasty, there was a Southern Song dynasty woodblock-printed edition of Du Gong Bu ji (杜工部集), which was composed of reprinted editions of Er Wang Ben (二王本) and Wu Ruo Ben (吳若本). Later, the book became incomplete. Four handwritten copies of the book have survived to this day. Among them, Mao Jin Ben (毛晉本) in Seikado Bunko of Japan (日本靜嘉堂文庫), which is the ancestor of the extant handwritten copies, is the closest to the Song dynasty edition. Mao Yi pointed out that Mao Jin Ben was an apograph. But the Mao Jin Ben is just an ordinary manuscript. Shanghai Library of Mao Yi Ben (毛扆本) was added based on remaining part of original books of the Song dynasty. The supplementary content is based on Mao Jin Ben. In the process of copying, Mao Yi collated Mao Jin Ben based on Qian Zhu Du Shi (錢注杜詩), which led to the loss of Mao Yi Ben and even the original appearance of the Song dynasty edition. The Qian Zeng Ben (錢曾本) of the National Library of China and the handwritten copies of the National Library of Taiwan were instead part of the Mao Jin transcription system. Compared with the Mao Jin Ben, the extra part of Qian Zeng Ben comes from “Qian Zhu Du Shi.” (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)

Keywords

• du gong bu ji
• mao jin
• mao yi
• qian zeng