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    Yi shuo : shi juan
    醫說 : 十卷     Ten chapters; in black and red ink; the pages with red ink are based on another Song Dynasty edition; postscripts written by Peng Fang and Li Yizhi in 1224. Yi shuo (Talks…
    • Contributor: Zhang, Gao - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Yizhi - Peng, Fang
    • Date: 1224
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    Chong xiu zheng he jing shi zheng lei bei yong ben cao : can shi san …
    重修政和經史證類備用本草 : 殘十三卷 / | Jing shi zheng lei bei yong ben cao     Chinese materia medica began with Shennong ben cao jing (Shennong's materia medica), which appeared before the Qin period (221-206 BC). By the time that Tang Shenwei (11th century-12th century) of Song dynasty…
    • Contributor: Hui, Mingxuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Shang, Lu - Ma, Sancai - Liu, Qi - Tang, Shenwei - Yu, Wenxu - Chen, Fengyu - Wang, Ji - Xiang, Tingji
    • Date: 1249
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    Quan fang bei zu : qian ji er shi qi juan, Hou ji san shi yi …
    全芳備祖 : 前集二十七卷, 後集三十一卷 /     Acquired by Dr. Walter T. Swingle (1871-1952) from Han fen lou, Shanghai; Zhang Jusheng bought the first part of the old manuscript and had it verified; then he put together the second…
    • Contributor: Zhu, Mu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Chen, Jingyi - Han, Jing
    • Date: 1256
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    Changli xian sheng ji
    昌黎先生集     Han Yu is chief among the eight major writers of the Tang and Song dynasties. His writings are rich in content, powerful, fresh, and lively. The 40-juan (section) Collected Works of Han…
    • Contributor: LI, Han - Han, Yu, 768-824
    • Date: 1265
    • Resource: PDF - 114

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    Si shu zhang ju ji zhu
    四書章句集注     The Analects is one of the important classics for Ruist (Confucian) scholars. It was compiled by the disciples of Confucius and their disciples. It mostly records conversations and dialogs relating to Confucius…
    • Contributor: Zhu, XI
    • Date: 1217
    • Resource: PDF - 75

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    Zhong xing guan ge lu
    中興館閣錄     This work is an account of the Imperial Library (Zhong xing guan) during the Southern Song dynasty (1127--1279). It was compiled by Chen Gui (1128--1203), who received the jin shi degree in…
    • Contributor: Chen, Kui
    • Date: 1210
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    Xin bian hun li bei yong yue lao xin shu
    新編婚禮備用月老新書     This book is a matchmaker's guide to weddings. The traditional Chinese wedding required much involvement by "matchmakers," a term that came to mean all persons or events that acted as go-betweens in…
    • Date: 1225
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    Xin bian Xuanhe yi shi
    新編宣和遺事     Xin bian Xuanhe yi shi (A new compilation of events from the Xuanhe period) is a Song dynasty work by unknown authors. The Xuanhe period was 1119--25. The book has two juan,…
    • Date: 1225
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    Shang shu biao zhu
    尚書表註     Shang shu (The book of documents), also called Shu jing (The book of history), is one of the Five Classics of the Confucian canon that greatly influenced Chinese history and culture. Translations…
    • Contributor: Jin, Lüxiang
    • Date: 1279
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    Wu dai shi ji
    五代史記     Wu dai shi ji (History of the Five Dynasties) was the original title of this work by Ouyang Xiu (1007--72), statesman, historian, essayist, calligrapher, and poet of the Song dynasty. It traditionally…
    • Contributor: Ouyang, Xiu
    • Date: 1280
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    Song Taizong huang di shi lu
    宋太宗皇帝實錄     Chinese court officials often recorded a reigning emperor's daily activities and words spoken in court, especially those that affected the country. These records, such as Qi ju zhu (Diaries of activity and…
    • Contributor: Yang, Yi, 974 - Qian, Ruoshui, 960
    • Date: 1225
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    Xin bian fang yu sheng lan
    新編方輿勝覽     The original work on which this compilation is based was completed in 1239, as indicated in its two prefaces, one by Lü Wu (1179--1255), and another at the end by the author…
    • Contributor: Zhu, Mu, 1255 - Zhu, Zhu
    • Date: 1267
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    Xin bian wan li jin nang xing jia zong kuo
    新編萬曆錦囊星家總括     This calendar was compiled by Lei Yingfa of the Yuan dynasty (1271--1368). The pocket-size book in two volumes has 66 pages. The paper is a dark yellow; the character type is of…
    • Contributor: Lei, Yingfa
    • Date: 1280
    • Resource: PDF - 34

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    Xin kan bu zhu tong ren yu xue zhen jiu tu jing
    新刊補註銅人腧穴鍼灸圖經     This work was compiled by imperial order by Wang Weiyi (987--1067), the Hanlin Academy physician, in 1026 in Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province). Two large stone steles containing the text were also…
    • Contributor: Wang, Weiyi, 987
    • Date: 1280
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    Xin kan tong ren zhen jiu jing : qi juan
    新刊铜人針灸经 : 七卷     One of the unique features of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine is acupuncture. During the Northern and Southern Song (960-1279), the science of acupuncture and moxibustion and the meridian and collateral theory…

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    Chong kan Sunzhenren bei ji qian jin yao fang : san shi juan
    重刊孙真人备急千金要方 : 三十卷     This work, Chong kan Sun zhen ren bei ji qian jin yao fang (New edition of Daoist Sun's invaluable prescriptions for ready reference), emphasizes that the life of a human being is…
    • Contributor: Sun, Simiao, 581-682 - Lin, Yi, Active 11th Century
    • Date: 1277
    • Resource: PDF - 136

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    Jing shi zheng lei bei ji ben cao
    經史證類備急本草     Jing shi zheng lei bei ji ben cao (Classified materia medica from historical classics for emergency), often abbreviated as Zheng lei ben cao, is an encyclopedic work on materia medica. The compiler,…
    • Contributor: Tang, Shenwei, Active 11th Century-12th Century - Lui, Jia
    • Date: 1211
    • Resource: PDF - 70

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    Chong xiu Zhenghe jing shi zheng lei bei yong ben cao
    重修政和經史證類備用本草     Chong xiu Zhenghe jing shi zheng lei bei yong ben cao (Revised Zhenghe edition of classified and practical basic materia medica based on historical classics) is an encyclopedic work on pharmacopeia by…
    • Contributor: Tang, Shenwei, Active 11th Century-12th Century - Kou, Zongshi, Flourished
    • Date: 1249
    • Resource: PDF - 108

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    Xianchun Lin'an zhi
    咸淳临安志     This work is a Southern Song local gazetteer, which was published in the fourth year (1268) of the Xianchun reign of the Song emperor Duzong. The author collected extensive material and, based…
    • Contributor: Qian, Shuoyou
    • Date: 1268
    • Resource: PDF - 82

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    Gu zun su yu lu: cun er shi wu jia, san shi er juan
    古尊宿語錄 : 存二十五家, 三十二卷     Gu zun su yu lu: cun er shi wu jia, san shi er (Quotations of ancient Zen masters) is a collection of important quotations by Zen masters of the late Tang dynasty,…
    • Date: 1267
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    Weinan wen ji : Wu shi juan
    渭南文集 : 五十卷     Weinan wen ji (Collected works of Weinan) is a prose collection compiled by Lu You (1125-1210). Lu was given the title of duke of Weinan in his later life, thus the title…
    • Contributor: Lu, You
    • Date: 1220
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    Chu ci ji zhu : Ba juan, bian zheng er juan, hou yu liu juan
    楚辭集注 : 八卷, 辨證二卷, 後語六卷     Chu ci ji zhu (Commentary of the songs of Chu) includes Chu ci ji zhu, Bian zheng (Dialectics of the songs of Chu), and Hou yu (Words after the songs of Chu).…
    • Contributor: Zhu, XI
    • Date: 1235
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    Hedong xian sheng ji : Si shi wu juan, wai ji er juan
    河東先生集 : 四十五卷, 外集二卷     Hedong xian sheng ji (Collected Works by Mr. Hedong) contains the work of famed Tang writer and poet Liu Zongyuan (773-819). The engraving of the text of this 13th century book is…
    • Contributor: Liu, Zongyuan, 773-819 - Liu, Yuxi, 772-842
    • Date: 1265
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    Jiaxuan chang duan ju : Shi er juan
    稼軒長短句 : 十二卷     Xin Qiji (1140-1207), courtesy name You'an, style name Jiaxuan, a native of Licheng Xian, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Donglu (present-day Licheng Qu, Jinan, Shandong), was a famed Southern Song ci poet and was…
    • Contributor: Xin, Qiji
    • Date: 1299
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    Huian xian sheng yu lu da gang ling : shi juan fu lu san juan
    晦庵先生語錄大綱領 : 十卷附錄三卷     Huian an sheng yu lu da gang ling (The grand guiding principles of the analects of Master Huian) is a collection of writing by Zhu Xi of the Song dynasty. Zhu Xi…
    • Contributor: Zhu, XI
    • Date: 1216
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    Yichuan xian sheng dian xiao fu yin Zhou yi
    伊川先生點校附音周易     Yichuan xiang sheng dian jiao fu yin Zhou yi (Master Yichuan's commentary on "The Book of Changes," with punctuation and notes on phonetics) was attributed to Cheng Yi of the Northern Song…
    • Contributor: Lu, Deming, 556-627 - Cheng, Yi
    • Date: 1279
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    Tong jian ji shi ben mo
    通鑒紀事本末     Tong jian ji shi ben mo (Record of historical events in Zi zhi tong jian from beginning to end) was the first Chinese historical record compiled with details grouped by event. It…
    • Contributor: Yuan, Shu - Sima, Guang
    • Date: 1257
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    Xie Xuancheng shi ji
    謝宣城詩集     Xie Xuancheng shi ji (Xie Xuancheng's poetry collection) was included in a supplemental series of Si ku zong mu (Catalog of the Complete Library of the imperial Siku Collection). It was said…
    • Contributor: Xie, Tiao, 464-499 - Liu, Qirui - Lou, Zhao - Liu, Wenxing
    • Date: 1220
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    Knowledge of the Movement of the Stars and What It Portends in Every Year. Timbuktu, founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The libraries of Timbuktu contain…

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    The Wonders of Creation. Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (1203--83) spent most of his life in present-day Iran and Iraq and served as a judge in Wasit and Hilla, Iraq, during the reign of the last Abbasid…
    • Contributor: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1280-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 439

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    Compendium of the Canon of Medicine. Ali ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (1210 or 1211-88), better known as Ibn al-Nafis, was a physician. He most likely was born in Damascus, where he studied medicine with Shaykh ʻAbd al-Rahim…
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Nafīs, ʻalī Ibn Abī Al-Ḥazm - Avicenna, 980
    • Date: 1240-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 224

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    The Book of the Pillow on Medicine. Abu al-Mutarrif ʻAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad Ibn Wafid was an Andalusian physician and courtier who lived and worked in Toledo during the first half of the 11th century. In Kitāb al-wisād fī…
    • Contributor: Ibn Wāfid, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Muḥammad, Active 998
    • Date: 1200-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 73

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    Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism. This manuscript copy preserves Al-Risālah al-Qushayrīyah (Al-Qushayri's epistle), one of the best-known Sufi textbooks. Written in 1045, the epistle was intended as a manual that would guide novice devotees to true Sufism.…
    • Contributor: Qushayrī, ʻabd Al-Karīm Ibn Hawāzin, 986
    • Date: 1220-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 182

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    A Treatise on the Sector-Figure and the Composition of Ratios. This manuscript preserves a three-page fragment from Risālatun fī al-shakl al-qiṭāʻ wa al-nisbati al-muʼallafah (A treatise on the sector-figure, and the composition of ratios), an essay that deals with Menelaus's Theorem and…
    • Contributor: Thābit Ibn Qurrah Al-Ḥarrānī, Died 901
    • Date: 1299-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 12

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    The Assemblies of al-Hariri. This manuscript preserves what is arguably the most valuable copy in existence of al-Maqāmāt al-ḥarīriyah (The assemblies of al-Hariri). The author, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn 'Ali al-Hariri (1054--1122), was an Arab philologist,…
    • Contributor: Arīrī - Wāsiṭī, Yaḥyá Ibn Maḥmūd, Active 13th Century
    • Date: 1236-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 355

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    The Excursion of the One Who Yearns to Penetrate the Horizons, by al-Idrisi. Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi (circa 1100--1166) was an Arab geographer and adviser to Norman king Roger II of Sicily. He was born into a family of Andalusian and Maghreb princes and sharif…
    • Contributor: Roger II, King of Sicily - Idrīsī
    • Date: 1250-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 722

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    Tract on the Methods of Enquiry. This short tract on dialectics is attributed to Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ashraf al-Husayni al-Samarqandi, a 13th-century logician, mathematician, and astronomer, whose biography is not well known. His name, however, suggests he…
    • Contributor: Samarqandī, Muḥammad Ibn Ashraf, 13th Century
    • Date: 1250-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 16

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    Kōan Etiquette. Kōan reisetsu (Kōan etiquette) is a book that prescribed etiquette at the Imperial Court in Japan. It was compiled on the orders of the retired Emperor Kameyama in 1285. Also known under…
    • Contributor: Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
    • Date: 1285-01-01
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    Mai jing
    脈經     Mai jing (The pulse classic) was compiled by Wang Shuhe, an imperial physician during the Western Jin (265-316). It is the earliest existing Chinese work on pulse theory. Shown here is a…
    • Contributor: Gao, Baoheng - Han, Yingbi, 1860 - He, Daren - Wang, Shuhe, 210-258 - Lin, Yi - Sun, Qiguang
    • Date: 1217
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    Apostle Lectionary. The Apostle Lectionary, written on parchment in the second half of the 13th century, is one of the important linguistic sources delimiting the early (Preslav) from the later (Athonite) redaction of this…