Jeongjo was the king who had many collection seals. There are 104 old books of 6431 volumes which were printed in China and sealed by his collection seals. This thesis focused on the reading of phrases of the collection seals, and decoding the way of ...
Jeongjo was the king who had many collection seals. There are 104 old books of 6431 volumes which were printed in China and sealed by his collection seals. This thesis focused on the reading of phrases of the collection seals, and decoding the way of sealing, to show his political and academic intention. There are 33 collection seals, which were sealed in Chinese printed books, of which, there are 11 Byolho(literary name) seals, 11 Sinbun (identification) seals, 2 Jaeguan(house or room name) seals, 3 Sujang (storage) seals, 1 Ginyeon(year record) seal, 5 Hanmun seals. The seals especially used on the books printed in China, was Byolho seal Goamjang, Sujang seal Jeonsebojang, Joseongug, Ginyeon seal Gimyosuchagsinsachihag, Hanmun seal Jinrisangsaeng, Dogseojilaghacheosim Sujeonmaihuacheonjisim The feature of Jeongjo’s collection seal was that he had no Seongmyeong (full name) seal, Jaho seal, Hyangguan(Family Origin) seal. Instead, he used Byolho seals, Sinbun seals, Sujang seals or Hanmun seals. Almost 75% of Korean printed old books were imprinted with 2 seals but half of Chinese printed old books were imprinted with 3 seals. He used different seals between Crown Prince period and King’s reign period. The way of sealing on the Chinese printed books was different from the way of sealing on the Korean printed books. The seals were imprinted on the very first page. During the Crown Prince period, the seals were imprinted between 2nd and 4th line with the 1st line being empty. Guanmulheon and Igeugjijang were imprinted in the right and downside of the book’s border. And the big seals, such as Chungungsosae, Hanmugbojang were imprinted the middle upper part of the first page. Joseongug was imprinted the right upper side of the very first page and Hongjae and Mangijiga were followed in the volume’s first page. Jeongjo used different collection seals dpending on the contents of the book. During the Crown Prince period, he imprinted Goamjang, Jingungjijang, Gimyosuchagsinsachihag, or Hongjae, Seunghuajanggyu, Daemunjangjayuggyeonglae on Gyeongbu; Hongjae, Seunghuajanggyu on Jabu, Guanmulheon, Igeugjijang on Jibbu. After he became the king, Joseonggug, Hongjae, Mangijiga were imprinted regardless of the book’s classification.