Pre-Imjin Kugyŏl Sources in North American Library Collections: A Preliminary Survey

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· 수록지 정보 : 구결연구 / 25호 / 217 ~ 282페이지
· 저자명 : ROSS KING

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This paper is a preliminary attempt to fill a double gap in current research on Korean kugyŏl glosses and the texts that carry them. First is its geographic focus on materials located in major North American research libraries. Second is its focus on kugyŏl materials post-dating the invention and promulgation of the hunmin chong'ŭm in the mid-15th century, and especially those kugyŏl materials thought to have originated before the Hideyoshi invasions of 1592-1598, this period at the end of the 16th century being the widely accepted rule of thumb cut-off point between 'Late Middle Korean' and 'Early Modern Korean'. I would gladly have extended the focus of the paper into the Koryŏ period and Koryŏ-era kugyŏl materials in North American collections, but unfortunately, no such materials appear to exist.
The library collections either consulted or visited as part of this research project are many: the Frederick McCormick Korean Collection held by Special Collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges in southern California (see Boltz 1985);Princeton University Library; the New York Public Library; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; the US National Archives; the US Library of Congress; the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California-Berkeley;the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University; the University of Chicago Library;the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii-Manoa; and the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. While all of these libraries contain in their holdings some old (Chosŏn) Korean editions, only four proved to have any pre-Imjin editions with kugyŏl annotations: (1) the US Library of Congress, (2) the Harvard-Yenching Library, (3) the Asami Collection at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California-Berkeley, and the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. This paper introduces these materials in order, and points out possible directions for continued research on kugyŏl materials held in North America.

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