台北故宫博物院收藏方志述论

Features of Local Gazetteers in The Collection of The Palace Museum in Taibei

台北故宫博物院收藏有三千余种方志,本文依其来源为纲,梳理诸种方志之撰修时代及分布地区,发现这些方志具有四个特色:年代久远,多康、雍、乾、嘉四朝纂修;明版量多,旧刊精钞兼备;宋、元撰修古方志多;地域范围广大,多塞北、华北地区方志。就价值言,从版本目录学角度来看,除作为史料运用外,不但有助于各式传本的对勘,对于古籍的流布传承亦具参考作用。其中明代以前刊行之方志超过四百部,其文物价值更不容小觑。

There are around three thousand works of local gazetteers in the collection of The Palace Museum in Taibei. The study in this paper points out four features after analyzing their time and place of compilation: (1) The majority of them were compiled long ago from the late-17 th to early-19 th century. (2) Numerous Ming-dynasty imprints, ancient and perfect, are contained in addition to the volumes from the reigns of Kangxi( 康熙 ), Yongzheng( 雍正 ), Qianlong( 乾隆 ) and Jiaqing ( 嘉 庆 ) of the Qing dynasty. (3) There are a great number of antique editions of the Song and Yuan dynasties. (4) The local gazetteers cover extensively, many regarding Inner Mongolia and Northern China. Besides the historic values, the local gazetteers include helpful information on diverse versions extant in the field of bibliography, the circulation and inheritance of the ancient books as well. What’s more, there are over four hundred volumes out of the total that were imprinted prior to the Ming dynasty.