Laozi (老子).

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Title

Laozi (老子).

Coverage

Suzhou:

Publisher

Shidetang,

Date

1553.

Subject

(On display: Laozi, vol. 1 of two bound vols.)

Description

This volume comes from a larger set of works by Daoist philosophers printed in the Jiajing period. This copy contains the ownership seals of Li Jian (1747–1799), Li Xialing (1768–1823), and Li Gonglin (1898–1979). It was annotated in 1794 by Li Jian, who was considered the most outstanding Qing dynasty landscape painter from Guangdong. The book contains 35 lines of his manuscript commentary. Later in life, Li Jian was strongly drawn to Daoism, and so these marginal annotations, written just five years before his death, are of particular interest.

Source

On loan from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Formerly in the Guanhailou Collection of Xia Wei and Soren Edgren.