Chapter 648, Rare Book

Three days later---

Speaking of which, Lin Yi is not the kind of person who has never seen the world. The pen has two magnificent library buildings www.biquge.info in his hands, one in Nandu and the other in Nanjing, and has collected a large number of rare and unique books in recent years.

However, when he was invited by Ashikaga Mie to go straight to the Ashikaga family's library to admire and select those ancient books, he was still shocked by what he saw.

The abundance of books is not enough to describe everything in front of you, and the abundance of sweat only indicates that there are many of these books. In fact, Lin Yi seems to be in a world of ancient books, a sea of rare books. From beginning to end, it's all books. The black press is neatly pressed and placed on an antique sandalwood bookshelf.

Maybe it's because few people take care of them, and those books are slightly dusty, but this not only makes Lin Yi feel that these books have a heavy sense of history, but also a "old" word.

Lin Yi suppressed his nervousness and excitement, while Ashikaga Mie next to him looked curiously at Begonia who came with Lin Yi to choose books.

In her opinion, no wonder Lin Yi likes begonias, she is so beautiful, and girls like this are estimated to like her.

Begonia had already paid attention to Ashikaga Mie's eyes, but she didn't say much, just smiled at her slightly.

Where did Lin Yi know the thoughts of the two women, and at this moment his mind was all used on these ancient book versions.

That's right, in addition to some of the Japanese and Korean editions, there are also many rare books from China.

Lin Yi couldn't see it with his eyes, so he had to choose those ancient editions that originally belonged to China first.

Lin Yi is an expert, but when he saw those wandering ancient books, the content was complete, covering the four major categories of scriptures, history, sub-books, and collections; Second, the edition category is complete and refined, including almost all the models of paper books. Handwritten manuscripts, transcripts, proofreading inscriptions, etc., and printed engravings, overprints, movable type prints, and printed copies.

As far as Lin Yi knew, it was a tradition of Jiangnan bibliophiles in the Qing Dynasty to recopy school texts, and Wuzhong collectors were particularly interested. There are many old copies of famous school rare books here, and there are as many as 7 copies of Huang Pilie's school book alone. Others, such as Zhu Yizun, He Zhuo, Wang Naizhao, Peng Yuanrui, Wu Qian and other gentlemen or copy or proofread or proofread, treasures are draped. Metaphor "Yuefu Ya Ci" three volumes, Ming handbook, Cao Yuan Zhongba, written in the Song Dynasty, the Yuan and Ming dynasties are unheard, most of the people seen today are Qing manuscripts, this is a Ming copy, and for Jiao, Mao Er's antiquities, precious.

Lin Yi actually did his homework before coming here, and he was afraid that he would lose his eyes, so he was familiar with the book "Examination and Summary of the Collection of Rare Yuan Ming Writings in Japan", which included the Yuan and Ming writings that had died in Chinese mainland and had a collection in Japan, one of which was the four volumes of "Zhang Taichang Shu Two Volumes Anthology" written by Ming Zhang Chong, which was impressively in front of Lin Yi's eyes at this moment.

In addition, Lin Yi also saw that in the manuscript, there was a five-volume copy of "Shizhou Poems".

As far as Lin Yi knows, this book has a "ridiculous" experience. It was compiled by Weng Fanggang, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty and calligrapher of Chinese New Year's Eve, who first hired someone to write the manuscript and then personally revised it. The revisions were still at the end of the story, but the manuscript had been stolen by no one else. Subsequently, this stolen manuscript was accidentally purchased by Weng Fanggang's friends, and Weng Fanggang borrowed it to recopy, and was secretly glorious, when he suddenly discovered that the end of the book had been made by someone, and it was also mixed in the name of Weng Fanggang. He couldn't cry or laugh, circled the pseudo-book with a pen, and made another trip on the side of the album, describing the whole thing, and finally sighed helplessly: "It's absurd, it's funny and ridiculous." ”

When Lin Yi saw this, he was already dazzled and couldn't put it down.

But soon, his eyes were drawn to a set of tomes.

I saw that the book was in excellent condition, and carefully distinguished, it was actually the "King James Wuyingdian Collector's Edition", 138 kinds, 2416 volumes, Qing Gaozong Hongli Collection, Qing Dynasty Qianlong 38 years to Jiaqing 8 years Wuyingdian Collector's Edition print.

Lin Yi was so shocked that he almost fainted.

You must know that the four kinds of "Eight Kinds of Yiwei", "Old Rituals of Han Officials", "Continuation of Wei Zheng Gong's Advice" and "Emperor Fan" in this book are engraved by Wuyingdian in the 38th year of Qianlong, with 20 lines and 21 characters per half page. After October of the same year, 134 kinds of movable type were printed in wooden type, with 9 lines and 21 characters per half page. White mouth, bilateral. The frame is 18.7cm×12cm. Each book is preceded by the Qing Gaozong imperial title "Wuyingdian Collector's Edition Ten Rhymes" poem and preface, the second summary, the first line of the first page has "Wuyingdian Collector's Edition" 6 words.?

This book is probably the largest surviving movable type print in China. In the 38th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Gaozong Hongli was too long to complete the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu", so he ordered the Confucian ministers to edit the "Yongle Canon" in the scattered and simple articles and rare Song and Yuan rare books in the world, which were printed and circulated first. Wu Yingdian first published four books such as "Eight Kinds of Yiwei". In October of the same year, Jin Jian, the minister who managed the engraving affairs of Wuyingdian, said that because there were many kinds of engraved books, it was not easy to carve them, so it was better to carve a set of jujube wood movable type plates, and print the books "with a huge disparity in the province of materials". In the 39th year of Qianlong, more than 250,000 wooden words were carved and books began to be printed. Emperor Qianlong gave the name "Juzhen" because of the indecency of the "movable type board". During this period, a total of 131 kinds of books were printed with this set of wooden movable type, and in the seventh or eighth year of Jiaqing, three kinds of books were printed, including "Western Han Dynasty Hui Yao", "Tang Hui Yao", and "Agricultural Book", and a total of 134 kinds of books were printed before and after. Among them, there are 31 kinds of scripture books, 27 kinds of history books, 33 kinds of sub-books, and 43 kinds of collection books. Including the first 4 types, there are 138 types for a total of 138 species. Since most of the books are printed at any time, there is no general title and general catalog for these more than 100 kinds of books, and later generations call it "Wuyingdian Collector's Edition Book".

After the advent of this book, because they are all rare rare books, almost all provinces have been engraved according to the pattern, forming the so-called external rare books, which have a great influence and play a positive role in promoting the development of cultural undertakings in the Qing Dynasty.

It's a pity that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this set of books suddenly disappeared. I heard that he once showed his face in Panjiayuan, but it was only some incomplete loose books.

It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a loser prince stole it from the dragonfly and took it to Panjiayuan in order to sell it for money. Later, he was afraid of being held accountable, so he collected it again, and when the warlords were fighting, they didn't know what to do.

I didn't expect ---

I didn't expect such a large rare book to be seen here.

If this is not counted, then Lin Yi also knows that at last year's international Christie's auction, a similar fragment was auctioned, and the final auction price was as high as 300,000.

In this way, the tome in front of me is definitely more than tens of millions......

Involuntarily, Lin Yi was already planning to take it into his pocket---