大藏經古籍版面調查研究 ─ 以《嘉興藏》與《弘教藏》行款為例=Survey and Research on Tripitaka Ancient Book Layout Sample Study on the Formation of "Jiaxing Tripitaka" and "Hongjiao Tripitaka"
This research focused on the Dikan edition scripture of the“Jiaxing Lengyen Temple Ancient Book Tripitaka”, a collection of 396 Buddhist scripture rare books from the Wangli period of the Ming Dynasty to the early stage of the Qing Dynasty, listed in the category of Zi-Bu-Shi-Jia-Lei and collected by the National Central Library and the lead-character-printed 417 books of “Tokyo Hognjiao Academy Compact Edition,” which dated back between 14th and 18th year of the Meiji Dynasty in Japan, listed in the category of Zi-Bu-Shi-Jia-Lei-Jin-Lu- Lun- Shu and collected by the National Palace Museum. This research was conducted through the comparison of ancient books. Major part of this research is investigation on formation which is the layout editing element of modern design. Through actual observation, organizing, recording as well as statistics on the number of character layout styles, this research attempted to sort out routine principles of Buddhist scripture formation on “Jiaxing Tripitaka” and “Hongjiao Tripitaka” from the relationship between topics and layout forms among formation. Discovery of the research: topic locations for “Jiaxing Tripitaka” and “Hongjiao Tripitaka” both start with the first character of the beginning of the volumes. For the names of authors and translators, there are 60 books that come with a single column for each of related persons’ names. As for characteristics for the names of authors and translators for Japanese version of “Hongjiao Tripitaka,” most of them were presented in a way of one column for a single line. There are 96 of them that come with such characteristics. The space between column lines and author/translator names is universal, with a room of 6 characters. “Jiaxing Tripitaka” and “Hongjiao Tripitaka” come with the most instances of sub-title characters reaching top of columns. In the meantime, characters for most of their layout styles for the first lines of chapters, pronunciation explanations as well as the second lines also reach top of columns.
