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Title

• [九經索引 = Manuscript and Concordance to the Nine Classics] / James Legge.
• [Jiu jing suo yin = Manuscript and Concordance to the Nine Classics] / James Legge.

Author

James Leggge, 1815-1897.

Publication

[185-?-187-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

James Legge Collection.

Description

12 v.; 27x27 cm.+

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Project to Catalog, Preserve, and Digitize Chinese Rare Books, 2008/2010.

Alternative Title

[Manuscript and Concordance to the Nine Classics]

Subjects

• Chinese classics > Indexes
• Wu jing > Indexes
• Si shu > Indexes

Note

• Double leaves, oriental style.
• English title of each volume is marked with pencil on cover.
• Includes numerous insertions, corrections, and margin notes in both Chinese and English in red and blue pencil marks.
• Annotations of [v. 3-5] stamped in red ink with handwritten reference codes.
• "The twelve volumes of concordance herewith comprise the entire series in nine classics (five jing and four books) evidently prepared by James Legge for use in preparing the indexes of Chinese characters and phrases and intended also help towards the formation of a dictionary and concordance for the classics"--From inserted handwritten slip.
• "甲子年[1864]六月中澣在於英華書院文房抄錄至丁卯[1867]年五月二十六日告竣--後學曾桂垣手輯"--Preface of "Index of names in the Ch'un and Ts'ew and Tso Chuen".

Indexed In (note)

• A catalog of books on China : being the Chinese part of the library of the late Rev. Prof. J. Legge

Source (note)

• Wilberforce Eames ;

Provenance (note)

• Originally collected and owned by James Legge. Two years after his death in 1897, his library was put up for sale in London by Luzac & Co.. Purchased by Wilberforce Eames, a librarian with the New York Public Library, and sold to the library in 1909.

Contents

[v. 1]. Shu jing = [Shoo King : index of characters in the Shoo King] -- [v. 2]. [Shi jing = She King : index of characters in the She King] -- [v. 3-4]. Chun qiu zuo zhuan : [er juan] = [Index of characters in the Ch'un Ts'ew and Tso Chuen] -- [v. 5]. Chun qiu ren ming di ming : juan san = [Index of names in the Ch'un Ts'ew and Tso Chuen] -- [v. 6]. Yi jing = [Yih King : Index of characters in the Yih King] -- [v. 7-8]. [Li ji : er juan = Le Ke : index of characters in the Le Ke] -- [v. 9]. Xue yong liang lun jian zi = [Index of characters in the Lun Yu, the Ta Heo and the Chung Yung] -- [v. 10]. [Zhong yong = Index of characters in the Chung Yung] -- [v. 11-12]. Liang Meng : [er juan] = [Mang Tsze : index of characters in the Mang Tsze].

Call Number

*OVQ 92-4333

OCLC

54071192

Author

James Leggge, 1815-1897.

Title

[Jiu jing suo yin = Manuscript and Concordance to the Nine Classics] / James Legge.

Alternate Script for Title

[九經索引 = Manuscript and Concordance to the Nine Classics] / James Legge.

Imprint

[185-?-187-?]

Edition

[Chao ben].

Alternate Script for Edition

[鈔本].

Indexed In:

A catalog of books on China : being the Chinese part of the library of the late Rev. Prof. J. Legge, 1899.

Provenance

Originally collected and owned by James Legge. Two years after his death in 1897, his library was put up for sale in London by Luzac & Co.. Purchased by Wilberforce Eames, a librarian with the New York Public Library, and sold to the library in 1909.

Local Note

The note slips inserted in separate envelopes and boxed together.

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Added Author

James Legge Collection.

Research Call Number

*OVQ 92-4333