새자료 <무자서행록>의 이본으로서의 특징

Abstract

A total of 4 kinds of literature was yielded as a result of the envoy to Beijing in 1828 in Ching and Joseon. Based on Sabaekjadangsimunjip (思伯子堂詩文集) by the poet Jang Jeryang (1799∼1843), who Joseon’s diplomats met at Beijing, it has been recently found out that the character Kim Jisu, who had been known as the author of Mujaseohaengrok (戊子西行錄), is in fact Kim Nosang, who had participated in the opposite party in politics, and Jisu is his Ho (nom de plume). In addition, it has also proven that the author of the Classic Chinese essay of the travel to Beijing, Buyeonilgi (赴燕日記) is Seokeun Lee Jaeheup, who accompanied the envoy as a doctor.Also, a different version of Mujaseohaengrok was newly found from the bibliotheca, Ilsamungo (一蓑文庫) at the Central Library of Seoul National University. This paper briefly introduces this version and examines its characteristics. The new material Mujaseohaengrok is transcribed by hand on manuscript paper marked as Illamgak (一覽閣) in soft types, which was a private bibliotheca run by Choe Namseon near Naksan in Seoul in the 1920~30’s. This new material was transcribed by hand toward this period and then kept in the Library of Kyeongseong Imperial University, but it has never been known. The transcriber of the Illamgak version had a cautious attitude in transcribing the original edition without modification. However, while the Illamgak version does not have elaborated sentences, the Yeonhaengrok version has relatively logical array of sentences. Considering in some several respects, it is conjectured that the Yeonhaengrok version would have been literally produced with the original edition at hand, whereas the Illamgak version would have been authored by reading or recitation of the text at a scene. Thus, the two versions were transmitted through different routes, Illamgak version copies seem to precede the other version copies in the time of establishment. As a work that the author Kim Nosang wrote for his single mother Jeong from Yeonil (1761~1845), the Illamgak version of Mujaseohaengrok features colloquial spoken expressions compared with the Yeonhaengrok version. From the fact that the Illamgak version strongly contains orally narrated contexts, the necessity is raised to interpret this long Gasa from a rather novel angle. The academic realm has so far assumed that long travel Gasa’s by Gyeonghwasajok including Hong Sunhak’s Yeonghaengga emerged in earnest from 1860. We can tell from the new material Mujaseohaengrok that the creation of long travel Gasa’s by Gyeonghwasajok began toward 1828, and that their literary achievements were brilliant.