《本草纲目》引用书名核准之研究报告

核准李时珍所引用的医药文献,不仅对《本草纲目》整理研究具有重要意义,还可能作为一个范例,探索古代医家文献引用的普遍规律。研究发现,《本草纲目》引用书名标注方式存在规律性,一般包括:书名、简称、别名、作者姓名(姓氏、名、字、号)、修订增补者姓名(姓氏、名、字、号)等。其引据文献有重要的文献学意义,如可用以考证元代吴瑞的重要本草学著作《日用本草》各版之真伪,可证实明代《食物本草》的作者与版本真伪。《本草纲目》增引的276家医书中,有64种未见于此前其他书目记载。同时,《本草纲目》引书也存在两书混一、一书重出、误引书名、误写作者、存目未引等问题,需引起读者的注意。

A report of studies on the accuracy of references cited in Compendium of Materia Medica

Checking the accuracy of references cited in Compendium ofMateria Medica is of significance for the research of Compendium ofMateria Medica.Furthermore,it can also serve as an example for ex-ploring the general rule on citations of historical documents by ancient authors.It has been found that there is a regularity in the format of the title of cited references,including book title,abridged title,alias title,author (surname,given name,secondary name,alternative name),name of reviser (surname, given name,secondary name,alternative name)etc.These references yield important significance for the discipline of literature.For example,by verifying the true and false of various editions of WU Rui’s Materia Medica in Daily Use of the Yuan Dynasty,the author of Dietetic Materia Medica of the Ming Dy-nasty and the true and false of its various editions can be thus confirmed.It is found that within the 276 references cited in the Compendium ofMateria Medica,64 cited references weren’t recorded in the for-mer bibliographies.Moreover,there were also other problems appearing in these cited historical docu-ments,such as two different books confused as one book,overlapping of books repeatedly,wrong cited book title,mistaken author,and with reference title but not really quoted etc.All these should be paid attention by the readers.