李嗣真《续画品录》辑考

A Compilation and Textual Examination of Li Sizhen's Continued Records of Paintings

现存李嗣真《续画品录》一卷系托名伪书,而原书早佚。由于朱景玄在《唐朝名画录序》中记其书为“空录人名”,后世诸多学者认为此书在唐时就已不存。但朱景玄原意并非如此,李嗣真原书在唐代依然流通。《唐朝名画录》不仅征引李嗣真书中品评条目,其后又列《续画品录》中二十五名画作不存无法定品的画家名姓。其后,《历代名画记》《尚书故实》《类说》诸书多有征引李嗣真书条目,李嗣真原书亡佚时间当晚于宋代。今见《续画品录》伪书约出现于南宋理宗年间(1225—1264年)至明嘉靖年间(1522—1566年),其后成为通行本流布于世。

The existing volume of Li Sizhen's Continued Records of Paintings is a pseudonymous copy of a longlost original.Since Zhu Jingxuan mentioned this book in the preface of Records of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty as“an empty list of names”,many later scholars concluded that this book no longer existed during the Tang dynasty.This was however a misinterpretation of Zhu Jingxuan's words,and Li's original version was actually still in circulation in the Tang dynasty.The Record of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty not only quoted critical entries from Li's book but also listed twenty-five works mentioned in the Continued Record of Paintings whose painters could not be identified.Later,many books,including Records of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties,Facts from the Book of History and Lei Shuo all quoted Li's book.Li Sizhen's original copy was lost sometime during the Song dynasty.The pseudonymous copy Continued Records of Paintings that we know today was probably written between the reign of Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty(1225–1264)to that of Jiajing of the Ming dynasty(1522–1566),and later became a popularly circulated text in the world.