문헌에 수록되지 않은 목판정보— 남간정사南澗精舍 소장 목판을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to identify information on woodblocks (木板) and suggest the importance of establishing woodblock information as a supplementary method for literature review in the future. Up until now, literature reviews have mainly dealt with information reflected in printed (印出) books (書冊), because access to examine woodblocks in person has been limited to researchers. In fact, it has been difficult to examine woodblock information closely because few researchers have sufficient experience in investigating them. Although we are aware that various pieces of information, which cannot be identified from printed books, are included in woodblocks, their importance as meta-information has not been highlighted. Woodblocks include not only information identified from printed books such as author name (著者), publication records (刊記), or records on the woodblock surface (版面) such as a black outline (匡郭), center fold (版心), and fish tail (魚尾), which indicate the book name and page number, but also various other pieces of information identified from di mensions, wood butt ends, ink writings (墨書), and bog-wood (象嵌). This study examined the woodblock information revealed by the Woodblock Research Project in Daejun and South Chungcheong Province: Investigation of Woodblocks in Namgan Jeongsa, which was conducted in 2013 as part of the Korean Studies Institute’s Nationwide Woodblock Research Project to examine all woodblocks across the country and establish basic references for a database. The investigation identified a total of four types of books and 4, 889 woodblocks collected in Namgan Jeongsa: 4, 484 woodblocks of Songjadaejeon, which is believed to be kept in Namgan Jeongsa, 403 of Jeongseobullyu (程書分類), which was engraved in the early 18th century, 1 of Sohakjipju (小學集註), and 1 of Wonjuwonssisebo (原州元氏世譜). Various pieces of woodblock information are identified from woodblocks in Namgan Jeongsa commensurate with its vast collection. Woodblocks with identical volume order (卷次) and page order (張次), multiple discarded (破棄) woodblocks, and bog-wood (象嵌) have been found, revealing important information that allows us to know not only why and how revisions were made but also their publication (刊行) information. In addition, the type of headnote (頭註) and drastic differences in dimensions across volumes allow us to identify where the woodblocks were engraved. Ink writings (墨書) on wood butt ends or the woodblock surface record the place of the woodblock’s engraving and the engraver’s name. This study identified multiple intaglio (陰刻) inscriptions (銘文), which are believed to indicate the names of engravers(刻手) that were not printed on pages. More notably, it was of particular interest that relief (陽刻) publisher (擔刊人) inscriptions on the woodblock surface, which should have been printed, were not in dicated in printed books. In the future, this study is expected to contribute to expanding the scope of woodblock studies, which have been mainly oriented toward printed books (書誌) and closely comparing printed Korean language publications and woodblock versions (板本), which have not been sorted out so far.