Latest news
Most popular
Main menu
News
History
Structure
Personalia
Events
Manuscripts
Publications
IOM Journals
PhD Program
Videos (rus)
Buy books (rus)
Library (rus)
IOM (rus)
What's most interesting for you?

  Print

Menshikov L. An Album of Illustrations to the Famous Chinese Novels // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 3, No 3, November 1997. P. 54-68.


Among the Chinese manuscripts of the so-called Nova collection, preserved in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, there is an Album (call number H-13) containing sixty miniatures. The first forty-five of them depict the characters of the famous Chinese novel Three Kingdoms Lo Guan-zhong (14th century A.D.). The last fifteen are illustrations to another famous novel — A Dream in the Red Chamber by Cao Xue-qin (1713—1764).

The Album represents a typical book produced in China. It contains sixty sheets of thick, dense, white paper, measuring 22.0 x 31.5 cm. The same type of paper is used for the front and back covers. The front and back covers are of patterned silk glued on paper. The sheets are folded in two and sewn so that the folds of the sheets face the outside, while the edges of the sheets are hidden in the back of the Album.

The Album bears no common title. There are the following records on the front cover:

кит. — an abbreviation written in black ink at the top right corner (a remainder of a former call number);

1) Инв. 365 — the 1937 call number, written in violet ink by К. K. Flug.

2) Инв. 1953, No. 339 — call number written in violet ink by M. P. Volkova.

There is also a stamp with the legend Институт Вост. АН СССР (The Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences).

The current call number of the Album (H-13) is placed on the back of the binding.

PDF-files

The entire paper

Keywords


Chinese art
A Dream in the Red Chamber
Three Kingdoms

IOM's page contains
Publications694
Monographs316
Papers376
b_zaynullin_2003.jpg
b_menshikov_2000.jpg
b_mez_1973.jpg
Random news: Announcements
The IOM RAS Academic Council will meet at 14:00 on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. The meeting commemorates the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege.
Read more...


Programming© N.Shchupak; Design© M.Romanov

 Российская академия наук Yandex Money Counter
beacon typebeacon type