Daihokoengaku Ryakusho Chugyo Chinese Title Da Fang Guang Yuan Jue Lue Su Zhu Jing Commentary On

by Zongmi In Japanese Shumitsu Or Sumitsu

$17,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Eight columns per page, 17 characters per column. Three sizes of type. 42; 41; 38; 40 folding leaves. Four vols. Large 8vo 280 x 195 mm. , orig. dark wrappers dyed with persimmon juice shibubiki , new stitching. Enryakuji Temple, Mount Hiei: mid-Kan’ei, ca. 1626-30 . An unrecorded moveable type edition of the commentary and subcommentary of Zongmi 780-841 , on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment. This is a rare example of an Eizan-ban, a book

• Binding: Wrappers

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