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Imperial Edition of the Complete Library in Four Sections

Xuanhe Painting Manual original: "宣和畫譜"

Summary original: "提要"

The officials respectfully note: The Xuanhe Huapu Xuanhe Painting Manual consists of twenty volumes, and the name of its author is not recorded.

It records the various paintings in the imperial collection during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. Previously, there was an Yuzhi Xu Imperial Preface dated to the Gengzi year of the sexagenary cycle, 1120 year of the Xuanhe era. However, the preface refers to "the current Emperor," which reads like praise from a subject, leading to the suspicion that the title is incorrect. It records a total of 231 individuals, amounting to 6,396 scrolls, divided into ten categories: 1. Buddhist and Taoist subjects, 2. figures...

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