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Stanford Book Fair Sept. '81
J.S Edgen (Cormel)
$40.00

Format: 6 columns of 17 characters
Border: Single 25.5x11.3cm
30 columns to the sheet
[Sung Printing] Fo-Shuo Fo-Mu Ch'U Sheng San-Fa- Ts'ang
Po-Jo Po-Lo-Mi-To Ching Chuan (chapter) Ch. 5 Huchou (distinct)
12th C. 29x11.4cm - single page from accordian binding
Ssu-ch'i Tripitaka edition(Ex Zenko-in temple,
Nara, Japan.) regular script
(This book was from the collection of the Zenko-in Temple in Nara Japan.) Northern 960-1126 Southern 1127-1279
In quality, the block printing of the Sung epoch (960-1280)
has never been surpassed. The importance of calligraphy
to the book leaves of the day is shown by the fact that in almost
all Sung editions, the names of the calligrapher who prepared
the copy is recorded in the colophon along with the author +
printer.
-high tide of chinese block printing -960-1368.
-before the Tsung dynasty (618-707) all books were
manuscripts, the art of printing not being in existance.
-Sung era - the printing of the Buddhists, the Taoists + 2
minor religious groups - the Manicheans + Moslems went
on side by side with the Confuccian + secular. of these, the
Buddhist deserves printing, for it was Buddhist printing that
spread to Japan + to Central Asia, + in China itself, it was
the Buddhists who printed the freatest single work of which
we have record - The Tripitaka (972-83).
-The whole Buddhist Canon - contained both the sacred
scriptures that had been translated from the Sanskrit + a
smaller number that had been written independently in
Chineese. This collection consisted of 50 48 volumes covering
130,000 pages. This massive work together with additions was
reprinted frequently during the Sung. In the 11-13C
there were 9 additional printings of the Chinese Tripitaka, the last one made in the yrs 1277-94, numbering 7182 scrolls.
-folded book form- usually used for Buddhist scriptures.
-development + spread of block printing in Eastern Asia
during the 4 C before the art first made its appearance
in Europe.
works- pu chapter chuan wrappers han or chih.

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