新加坡抄本《史记》通考

A General Study on the Singapore Copy of Records of the Grand Historian(Shiji)

新加坡国立大学中文图书馆典藏一部完善的旧抄本《史记》。该抄本"序言"的载体笺纸为罕见文物海盐法喜寺藏经纸,其"序言"的撰文与书写者是明朝嘉靖年间宰辅大臣、书法大家顾鼎臣。抄本正文的字体与款式,可以印证顾鼎臣在"序言"中的高度评价,确认该抄本是明朝书法巨擘姜立纲的楷书作品。姜立纲在天顺、成化、弘治三朝从事和主管抄写包括诏书在内的朝廷重要文件,官至太仆寺少卿。这部五十余万字的抄本是中书格书法的代表,作为有别于《史记》诸本系统的另类,是一部未曾参与过历次校勘活动的"新本"。书中数枚钤印标识了该抄本从京师经江南、岭南而流传至星岛的辗转过程,这样的经历在中外文化交流史上具有典型意义。该抄本不仅是中华传统书法中的艺术极品,而且在文书学、文献学、中外文化交流乃至手工造纸业研究等方面都具有重要意义。

The National University of Singapore's Chinese library has a complete and very ancient handwritten manuscript copy of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.The paper on which its preface is written is a rare cultural relic:paper for transcribing the Buddhist scriptures from Faxi Temple of Haiyan county,Zhejiang.The preface was composed and its text handwritten by Gu Dingchen,the Grand Secretary and calligrapher in the Ming dynasty Jiajing reign period.Gu's preface accords high praise to the calligraphic style and form(the regular script)of the main body of the text,which has been confirmed as being the work of the great Ming calligrapher Jiang Ligang.Jiang served as Deputy Minister of the Imperial Stud,and was engaged in and in charge of copying important court documents,including imperial edicts,in the Tianshun,Chenghua and Hongzhi reign periods.The transcription,comprising more than500000 characters,is representative of calligraphy in this format.Differing systematically from other copies of Records of the Grand Historian,this copy constitutes a "new edition"that has never been part of the numerous previous textual amendments and collations.Collectors' seals show that it went from the Ming capital,Beijing,to Singapore via the Jiangnan and Lingnan areas,in a journey that has classic significance for the history of Sino-foreign cultural exchange.The transcription is not only an artistic masterpiece of Chinese calligraphy,but also of great significance for research on ancient documents,philology,Sino-foreign cultural exchanges,and even the manufacture of handmade paper.