Ch.: Qing wen bu hui 清文補彙, Ma.: Manju gisun be niyeceme isabuha bithe [Manchu Collected...
Eight vols. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: 1802 (date of colophon).
Second edition of this landmark Manchu-Chinese dictionary, the last of the great Manchu dictionaries of the 18th century. Ihing first published his dictionary privately in 1786, the date of the Preface. We know of only one copy of this edition, held at a Chinese library. All other copies in circulation are, to the best of our knowledge, of the second edition.
In 1708, on the Kangxi emperor’s command, a Mirror of the Manchu Language had been published at court. In 1724, Li Yanji published Ch.... More