《琼瑶神书》考略

《琼瑶神书》约成书于元末明初,作者为兼通针术的道人。经考证,题曰“琼瑶神书”之书至少有三种。其一,《琼瑶神书》三卷（今佚）;其二,明刊《琼瑶发明神书》三卷《又作“琼瑶真人针经”》,此乃后人伪作,与前书内容通然不同;其三,清刊《琼瑶神书》四卷（又作“琼瑶神书大成”）。此本真伪参半,其卷三末补有二部与原书内容完全无关的医书,别卷也间有后人增补之文。

Investigation on Qiong yao shen shu (Qiongyao's Magical Book)

Written in about the peried of late Yuan to early Ming dynasties, Qiongyao's Magkical Book is attributed to a Taoist who was also conversant with acupuncture art. By investigation, it is found that there are, at least, three books carrying the same title of Qiongyao's Magical Book, including a 3 volume Qiongyao's Magical Book now lost; a 3 - volume Qiongyeo's Magical Book of Discovery (also called The Acupuncture Clossic of Qiongpeo the Immortal printed in the Ming dynasty, which is entirely different from the previous one and is an aperypha; and a 4 - volume Qiongyao's Magical ha printed in the Qing dynasty also called Qiongop's Great Cnllertions of Magical thes which is a mixture of authentic and aperyphal texts in which 2 medical boks irrelevant to the original are attached to the end of volume 3,with suppIements by later writers intermingled in other volumes.