韓國古典叢刊 地理類 編纂 試論

Abstract

The Institute of Translation of Korean Classics has been promoting the project for publication of 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』. The aims of this project are to select publication objects by searching the catalogues of Korean classics, publish the books of type facsimile, collation and punctuation, and building of a database with bibliographical notes. Among the categories of 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』, we chose "geographies" as the first object of publication. This was the result of considering informativity and usability. In this study, we reviewed the classifications and the cases of publishing geographies and searched the direction of compilation. In the catalogues of China and Korea, geographies were considered to be related to administration of the country. So they were separated from others. The geographies of Korea had been published throughout the Chosen Dynasty. After publishing of 『東國輿地勝覽』, the government tried to publish geographies such as 『輿地圖書』 in order to exercise control over the country. The geographies were also published in the private sector. These geographies used to be popularized by means of facsimile, and people were careless about selecting the good version and collation of various versions. This is the starting point of publication of geographies in 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』. The geographies in 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』 are divided into two categories, national geographies(總誌) and local geographies(方誌). Seven national geographies have been selected for compilation: 『新增東國輿地勝覽』, 『東國輿地志』, 『輿地圖書』, 『東輿圖誌』, 『輿圖備誌』, 『大東地志』, 『輿載撮要』. Local geographies will be selected based on edition(版種), richness of contents and orderliness. We examined some issues in the compilation of geographies. First of all, we looked at the practical problems encountered in determining whether a manuscript is of the same content or not, and also considered the compilation of a manuscript that is difficult to understand in the steps of compilation. Considering the high ratio of manuscripts in Korean classics, all these manuscripts cannot be excluded from the compilation list. Again when it comes to manuscripts, more attention should be paid to each course, including selection of the compilation target, selection of the base volume(底本), and compilation of the book of collation and punctuation. Next, we looked at the problem of compilation of geographies other than national and local geographies. The writings on foreign lands, mountains and rivers can be involved in 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』. A careful review of these writings and rigorous selection process should be made separately. Although related research has been done on how to supplement and reconstruct the documents with other documents, 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』 does not, in principle, make up or reorganize the materials. Finally, we took a look at the problem of geography textbooks during the period of enlightenment. Since there are problems such as foreign originator, unoriginal contents, and bias in the contents of the book, it was decided that the textbook cannot be included in 『the Comprehensive Publication of Korean Classics Collections in Classical Chinese』.