정조 예제·어제 원고의 텍스트 비평

Abstract

‘Royal ancient douments’ possessed by Palace Library (藏書閣) show its status and identity as a repository of national royal literature. There have been various contents and forms of royal ancient documents and significant numbers of documents which belong to poetry and prose are manuscripts related to kings’ imperial writing. Especially, the manuscripts related to the crown prince’s writing and the king’s writing by Jeongjo of Joseon have a majority. Seo, Myeongseon (徐命善) was responsible for proofreading and editing of the king’s writing right after Jeongjo of Joseon acceded to the throne and this was the base of 『Chunjeorok (春邸錄)』. The manuscripts of the king’s writing by Jeongjo of Joseon were made at the beginning of the enthronement and there are a lot of traces that he proof read by himself. In the manuscripts of the king’s writing, there are a lot of materials of the only ones which were not included in Collected Works of Jeongjo of Joseon and many cases of being done in 『Collected Works of King Jeongjo (弘齋全書)』 after removing or amending them. Jeongjo of Joseon erased the existence of other persons against his regency (代理聽政) as the oldest son of the crown prince (世孫) who were written in the titles of the King’s Writing in the proof reading process by deleting their names. The manuscripts of the imperial orders by Jeongjo of Joseon can be classified into the king’s handwriting and the letters which are not the king’s handwriting. The king’s handwriting was usually the drafts or proofread manuscripts written with his own hands and the letters which are not the king’s handwriting were copied by the liege before and after 『Collected Works of King Jeongjo』 was published. There are many cases that the dates of production were written on the starting parts or envelopes of the manuscripts. Jeongjo of Joseon proofread the manuscripts by himself or indicated proofreading details or instructions by utilizing the pieces of paper. And public officials of Royal Archives actively gave their opinions to him through the pieces of paper. There have been a lot of alternative versions of the identical manuscripts of the imperial orders. The timely order and differences among the alternative versions should closely be examined. And there have been also the revised texts and copies of the king’s handwriting together. Several kinds of signals were written in the manuscripts of the king’s handwriting by Jeongjo of Joseon. Of course, the manuscripts that indicate tilde, round dots, and numbers were usually written to manufacture hanging tablets. The partial manuscripts of the king’s handwriting were kept in envelopes. Jeongjo of Joseon kept his manuscripts in envelops bearing the publication of collected Works in mind. He briefly wrote the fact that he copied, the recipient of the work, the period of writing, the background of writing, the abbreviated title, and the first phrase in a poem on the surface of the envelope. Proof reading and transcription were repeated several times from when Jeongjo of Joseon first wrote drafts of the king’s handwriting or the imperial orders before and after the enthronement until the applicable works were published on 『Collected Works of King Jeongjo』 after his death. The king’s handwriting and the imperial orders by Jeongjo of Joseon are meaningful in that the process and aspects can concretely be checked.