Four Random Folding Leaves In Excellent Facsimile Of The Ming Yongle Dadian Manuscript

by Yongle Dadian Forgery

$1,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Folio 473 x 290 mm. , “orig.” wrappers, “orig.” title label on upper cover, stitched as issued. N.d.: n.p. but probably somewhere in China sometime in the last century . The Yongle Encyclopedia Yongle Dadian , the world’s largest encyclopedia, was completed in 1408 through the efforts of 2169 scholars working in the then capital of Nanking. It consisted of 22,877 manuscript fascicles juan and was bound in 11,095

• Binding: Wrappers

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