Title
Sijŏn taejŏn (Ch. Shizhuan daquan, 詩傳大全).
Coverage
Seoul,
Date
ca. 1675.
Subject
Gift of Xia Wei and Soren Edgren.
Description
This large-format copy of Sijŏn taejŏn consists of a collection of commentaries on the Chinese classic Book of Odes as compiled at the early Ming Court by Hu Guang (1370–1418) and others. It was printed by the Korean government circa 1675 from the 1668 musinja bronze movable type font, which was modeled after the kabinja font of 1434. The first volume is illustrated with woodcuts. The book’s unusually large format indicates its non-commercial origin.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School