A Narrative on Calligraphy History Footnotes

Footnotes on the Historical Background of “A Narrative on Calligraphy”

(i) See "Two Chinese Treatises on Calligraphy" by Chang Ch'ung-ho and Hans H. Frankel (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1995).

(ii) See "The Manual of Calligraphy by Sun Guoting of the Tang" by Pietro De Laurentis (Napoli: Universita degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 2011).

(iii) The term "譜" is defined as :

《說文新附‧言部》：“譜，籍錄也。”分類編列以記人物、世系及家族的書籍。清鄭珍《說文新附考》：“譜，《世本》有《帝王譜》、《諸侯譜》、《大夫譜》各篇。 --- (中央研究院搜詞尋字)

Hence, the term carries the meaning of "recording a certain subject or event in a systematic apporoach". Since neither "Treatise" nor "Manual" suggests a meaning of recording, "Narrative" should be more appropriate in translating "譜" into English in this context.

(iv) See http://theme.npm.edu.tw/selection/Article.aspx?sNo=04001002

(v) See

1. 清．朱履貞，《書學捷要》。

2. 朱建新，〈孫過庭書譜評考〉，《孫過庭書譜箋証》。

3. 啟功，〈孫過庭書譜考〉，載《啟功叢稿》頁六○∼八九。

(vi) 沈尹默在〈歷代家學書經驗談輯要釋義〉中說：“唐朝一代論書法的人，實在不少，其中極有名為眾所知如孫過庭〈書譜〉，這自然是研究書法的人所必須閱讀的文字。”

(vii) See 馬永強《書譜•書譜譯注》(河南美術出版社,1993)。

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