[Study on themisprints of the primary version of the
Compendium of Materia Medica].
ZHONGHUA YI SHI ZA ZHI (BEIJING, CHINA : 1980) 2019;
49:146-162. [PMID:
31269623 DOI:
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0255-7053.2019.03.004]
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Abstract
The Jinling version of the Compendium of Materia Medica was the primary version.It accurately represented the ideas of LI Shizhen, therefore it was valued by the scholars.There were many defects in misprint (knife carving) and proofreading.The main errors were some Chinese character's strokes missing and wrong characters printed.The authors collected some statistics data andmade some statistical analysis. They found that total misprints were 376 and emerge 615 times.Those misprints can divide into two categories: lack of some parts of Chinese characters; lack of some strokes of Chinese characters.Four tables which list the misprints was made.It is helpful for scholars to examine Compendium of Materia Medica or the study of other similar ancient literatures.
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