元代碑志的史料价值举隅——以历史人物传记为中心的考察

On the Historical Value of Yuan Epitaph——A Study Focusing on the Historical Biographies

元代碑刻具有重要的史料价值。通过元碑与元史的比勘,我们发现元碑不仅能够订正正史中的一些人物形象,而且还能补充正史中的一些人物材料。由于《元史》的材料来源与修史的时限等问题,造成了官修《元史》在人物评价与史料钩稽上存在许多偏颇和漏洞,这是学人在使用《元史》材料时必须慎而又慎的问题。

The inscription of Yuan Dynasty has important historical value,which is shown in the following three aspects： proving,correcting and supplementing the historical data. Focusing on the latter two aspects,this paper aims to make a study on both the exploration and comparison of Yuan epitaph and Yuan history. It points out that Yuan epitaph can help not only to make corrections of some characters in the authorized history,but to supplement the historical data of historical figures. When studying the official Yuan history,scholars often encounter a lot of problems in the aspect of evaluation of historical figures and exploration of historical data. This is usually caused by the following reasons like the origin of the historical materials,time limit,etc. They must be careful enough when using the materials of the official Yuan history.