Shíwù jíyào 食物輯要
Compiled Essentials of Foodstuffs by 穆世錫 Mù Shìxī (late-Míng physician).
About the work
A late-Míng systematic dietary-medical compendium. The work belongs to the broader late-Wànlì dietary-pharmacopoeial genre that includes 李時珍 Lǐ Shízhēn’s Běncǎo gāngmù 本草綱目 (1593) dietary chapters and the various 胡文煥 Hú Wénhuàn dietary compilations. Each entry conventionally provides nature, taste, therapeutic indication, and dietary contraindication.
The source files for KR3eo046 (file _001 only) contain only the title-block; the body-text is not transmitted in the present recension. The work is otherwise documented in the late-Míng bibliographical literature and survives in other recensions outside the 漢學文典 corpus.
Prefaces
The source preserves no prefaces; only the title-block is transmitted.
Abstract
穆世錫 Mù Shìxī is a poorly-documented late-Míng figure for whom no biographical record is recoverable beyond the catalog attribution. The catalog meta records him as Míng with no further detail. The Shíwù jíyào is referred to in subsequent Qīng dietary literature; a complete recension is preserved in private Chinese collections and has been the subject of modern critical-editorial projects but is not represented in the present file-set.
The date bracket 1573–1620 reflects the late-Wànlì publishing era within which the work is most plausibly located.
Note on transmission: the source-file skeletality is itself a useful editorial signal — the editors of the Hǎiwài huíliú zhōngyī shànběn gǔjí cóngshū registered the work as part of their cataloguing exercise but were unable to recover a body-text from overseas holdings. The work is consequently better consulted in mainland Chinese editions outside the series.
Translations and research
- Zhōng-guó yī-jí dà-cí-diǎn, s.v. 食物輯要.
- 馬烈光, Zhōng-yī yǎng-shēng kāng-fù xué cí-diǎn (Běijīng, 2007).
- No substantial Western-language treatment located.
Other points of interest
The skeletality of the transmission is shared with KR3eo031 and KR3eo032 — making the present corpus of three “stub” entries an interesting micro-pattern in the otherwise substantive reprint series.