哈佛燕圖稀見明刻本《全像新鐫一見賞心編》之編纂、作者及其插圖解題

Resolving Some Questions Concerning the Editing and Authorship of, and Illustrations in, a Rare Ming Dynasty Printed Edition of Completely Illustrated and Newly Printed Beautiful Sight Collection, Held in the Harvard-Yenching Library

《全像新鐫一見賞心編》是一本彙集歷代男女情愛故事的中短篇文言小說集，共有137篇，可謂是男女情愛故事的集大成者。然此書甚是罕見，在中國大陸編的《中國古籍善本書目》中沒有著錄。哈佛大學燕京圖書館藏有此書的明刻線裝本、日本東洋文庫膠卷本及臺灣天一出版社的影印本，三者實屬同一版本系統，然天一出版社影印本少去卷1至卷2的八十多頁內容。本文對此書的編纂情況、編者問題及33幅插圖分別作了介紹、考證和解題。本文以為《一見賞心編》與《金瓶梅詞話》存在一定的關係，他的的編纂者是武進作家白悅。本文還認為小說集中一些大膽的性愛描寫和插圖是晚明反理學、張揚個性、肯定情欲思潮下的產物。

Completely Illustrated and Newly Printed Beautiful Sight Collection is an anthology of short and medium-length fictional pieces written Classical Chinese that assemble romantic love stories from the successive eras. Altogether it includes 137 selections, and can be said to represent a great synthesis of romantic love stories. But this work is quite rare, and is not listed in Bibliography of Ancient and Rare Books in China compiled on the Mainland. The thread-bound Ming dynasty printed edition of this text held in the Harvard-Yenching Library, the off-set printed edition in the Tōyō Bunko in Japan, and facsimile edition of the Tianyi Publishing House in Taiwan are all in fact received from the same source edition. The Tianyi Publishing House’s facsimile edition, however, is missing more than 80 pages from the contents of chapters 1 and 2. This essay provides an introduction, verification, and resolution of questions concerning the editing and editor of this text, as well as 33 of its illustrations. It is the author’s view that there exists a definite connection between the Beautiful Sight Collection and the Jin Ping Mei cihua. The editor of the Beautiful Sight Collection is the writer Bai Yue, from Wujin. Furthermore, it is argued that the bold, sexual description in the collection and its accompanying illustrations are products of trends in anti-Neo-Confucian, individualism, and the sexual passion evident in the late Ming period.