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Subject:Re: An old chinese calligraphy book
Posted By: rat Tue, Aug 28, 2018
The booklet is dated 1917, and reproduces a rubbing dating from a Northern Wei (386-534 AD) stone carved with calligraphy by Zheng Daozhao, the stone now commonly called Zheng Wen Gong bei 郑文公碑. The title of your book is "First Rubbing of the Zheng Wen Gong Stele" 初拓郑文公碑. The publication data gives only the studio name of the collection the rubbing is in, but the publisher is Youzheng Shuju 有正书局. The frontispiece you have placed just to the left of the cover is dated to the Tongzhi reign (mid 19th c) and probably is someone who owned the rubbing or was asked by the owner to write it out. The photo in the bottom middle of your montage is a colophon to the rubbing singing its praises. I can't tell who wrote it or when, but likely also mid 19th c. I'm not sure where on the stone the text shown at the bottom right is located. Online are multiple images of the source stone, rubbings, and copies of its calligraphy, just type this into google and search through the images: 郑文公碑
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