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A Bibliographical Consideration on Mungokchip

Kim Soonhee 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Mungokchip is a collection of Kim Su-hang's works; Kim Suhang was a royal liege and writer in the middle of the Joseon Dynasty. Following his will, Kim Chang-hyup, his son and a renowned writer himself, carefully prepared for publishing this book to contain only the selected works from his father's poetry. Mungokchip has a typical framework of an anthology in the Joseon Dynasty. Mungokchip was published again in 3 years after its first publication, which was very rare. Since there were little differences in the contents of first edition and the second edition, it can be assumed that the second edition was published not for any problem of its framework, for a wider circulation. Mungokchip could contain the works by writers other than Kim Su-hang, with the time and circumstances between the publication of the first edition and the second edition. Kim Chang-hyup, however, didn't contain such works as prefaces, funeral orations, biographies, and epitaphs, written by other writers for Kim Su-hang in Mungokchip. Since Kim Changhyub prudently compiled only his father's own works preciously kept for his lifetime, Mungokchip could present unique features among anthologies published in the Joseon Dynasty, and its contents and structure were perfectly organized. Mungokchip also documents that a publishing of an anthology symbolically shows the accomplishment of a family and an individual.

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