国家图书馆藏抄本述略

Brief Introduction of Hand-Copied Book in the National Library of China

雕版印刷术大规模使用之前,古籍多是以抄本方式流传,被称为中国书籍史上的"写本时代",雕版印刷术广泛使用后,印本图书逐渐代替抄本成为古代书籍传播的主要形式。之后的千余年,抄本继续处于与印本并行的状态,其文物、文献及艺术价值依然被关注和研究。本文对国家图书馆馆藏刻本时代的抄本古籍进行梳理和研究,以期进一步挖掘抄本古籍的价值。

Before the woodblock printing became the most popular printing technique, there was a long time in China for making book copies by transcribing. This era was called by the term ＂Hand-Copied Book Period＂ in the history of Chinese books. Along with the woodblock printing bad been diffusing across the China, printed books bad become the great majority of the China Ancient Books. Meanwhile, hand-copied books were still existing as the minorities. But for the great art and literature values, hand-copied books are concerned by scholars. Based on the China ancient hand-copied books in the collection of the National Library of China, this article tries to classify and study these hand-copied books for discovering more academic values of hand-copied books.