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The state of things
Regular readers of this blog might be thinking that I’ve lost interest in it, or even that I might be dead, as it is now some ten months since my latest offering. Neither is the case. First, I had to...
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Specimen pages
Collections of specimen pages are a characteristically Chinese bibliographical genre, albeit one that doesn’t go back much more than a century. The earliest example is thought to be a work by the...
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Jinling Buddhist Press
In April 2013 I visited China with Joshua Seufert, who had been appointed in the summer of 2012 to take over most of my responsibilities in the Bodleian so that I could concentrate on cataloguing our...
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Memorials
In an earlier blog entry, Survey of the Great Ming Empire, I discussed an edition which had been made sometime around the year 1600, not long before the fall of the Ming. The printing blocks of such a...
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Papermarks
Many years ago I noticed that some of the leaves in our old books had seals on them which were clearly placed there before the book was printed and bound – they are sometimes found on the reverse of...
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