북경대 소장 ≪洪湛軒尺牘≫ 原文 및 校譯(Ⅰ)

Abstract

HongDamHeon Cheokdok(≪洪湛軒尺牘≫), kept in the Rare Books Collection Division of Peking University library, is a collection of letters and poems sent by Hong Daeyong(洪大容), a scholar of the Chosun Dynasty, to three scholars of the Qing Dynasty, Yan Cheng(嚴誠), Lu Fei(陸飛) and Pan Tingjun(潘庭筠) between 1766 and 1767. The collection is in Luo Yizhi(羅以智)'s Ilha Jegeum Habjip(≪日下題襟合集≫). Through a meticulous translation of these letters collected in HongDamHeon Cheokdok, I found that there were several of his letters that were not in the Korean ancient literary books. My finding is original and different as it will be an important literature material for supplementing or correcting Hong Daeyong’s literary works in the future researches. As HongDamHeon Cheokdok has a lot of volumes, it is difficult to introduce them at once. I, therefore, present only his nine letters out of thirty letters in this paper. On the basis of this paper, I hope to facilitate further researches that can discover not only the missing contents of Hong Daeyong’s anthology, but several unknown stories of the Qing Dynasty’s three scholars.