Shénnóng Běncǎo Jīng Dú 神農本草經讀 (variant transmission)

Reading the Shennong Materia Medica Classic — a parallel-edition witness by 陳念祖 (Chén Niànzǔ, 1753–1823, 清)

About the work

KR3ec047 is a parallel transmission of Chén Niànzǔ’s Shénnóng běncǎo jīng dú — the same work as KR3ec046 — preserved separately in the 漢學文典 collection, likely a different printed edition. The catalog meta gives the same title but no explicit author, suggesting a possibly anonymous re-issue or commentary. The local repository preserves only a header file for KR3ec047.

For full discussion of the work, see KR3ec046. This entry is a minor textual witness rather than a separate work.

Prefaces

The local repository contains only a mandoku header file.

Abstract

This is a variant-edition witness to Chén Niànzǔ’s Shénnóng běncǎo jīng dú. The difference between this entry and KR3ec046 is bibliographic (different imprints) rather than textual. The dating range covers the period from the first 1803 printing through the late-Qīng re-issues.

The two entries together reflect the wide diffusion of the Jīng dú in the late-Qīng zhōngyī education market.

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