刘向《别录》“一人持本”考述

A Philological Examination of the Practice of “Holding up One Volume” from Liu Xiang’s Bie Lu

刘向《别录》所谓“一人持本”,“本”当指底本。对应“本”“本书”,整理定本可称“新书”,誊抄副本可称“别本”。“本”“本书”又可与重修、续书、附记、注解对文,《汉书》之于《汉纪》,《东观汉记》之于《后汉书》,《三国志》之于裴松之注,《春秋谷梁传》之于范甯集解,都可称“本书”。

In Liu Xiang’s Bie Lu, which recounts his method of organizing and collating books from the imperial libraryduring the Han Dynasty, when he describes “holding up one volume”, this “volume” refers to the originaledition of a given book against which variant editions will be compared. The editions produced as a result of suchcomparison can be called “new editions” or “varied editions”. These original editions can also be understood incontrast with recopied editions, expanded editions, appendices, commentaries, etc.