明實錄의 刊行·收藏과 朝鮮 유입

Abstract

In the history of China, annals were a manuscript that was kept to record chronologically the daily accounts and national affairs of emperors during reign. Ming dynasty also compiled its annals according to the tradition of previous empires. When emperors died, successors usually made a collection of departmental materials and local literatures of the predecessors' time and published them following the conventional examples of their ancestral rulers. As a result, the histories of thirteen emperors were fully written in the annals of Taejo to Heejong. The annals of Ming dynasty were also brought to Chosun. In the 29th year of Sunjo reign, an envoy to Peking bought the annals of Ming dynasty and returned to chosun with the annals the following year. Yet the location of ‘The Annals of Ming Dynasty’ is unknown at the present time. According to the research of a Japanese scholar, the annals were transferred to Bongmodang of the Changdok palace and preserved there in the late time of Japanese Occupation, after the Occupations, their whereabouts was missing. All one could confirm the present moment are only few of film materials of ‘The Annals of Ming Dyansty’, pictured in 1933. To day, the only way to obtain the information of the films is by logging in the Korean History On-Line System and putting in the search term.