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Qing printing ascribed to Li Jie in the Tenri Library of Nara (repr. Taipei:
Guangwen shuju, 1975)·
Discrepancies between this catalogue and the present form of the 1445
Taoist Canon and its 1607 supplement suggest that Bai had a different print-
ing at hand. It is known that his home temple received a copy of the Canon
by imperial decree in 1476. The number of juan cited for several titles in the
catalogue conflicts with the actual quantity found in the Canon. Information
on provenance appears to have been copied directly from the scant data that
are sometimes recorded following the title of a text in the Canon. Similarly,
summaries of the contents largely replicate the headings or subdivisions of a
text. The serial characters of the Qianzi wen T~)c (Thousand-Word Text)
appear at the close of each entry.
Judith M . BOLTZ

m Boltz J. M. 1987a, 9- 10; Chen Guofu 1963, 178 and 183- 89; Ozaki Masaharu
1987; Qing Xitai 1988-95, 4: 18- 22; Qing Xitai 1994. 2: 28- 31; Wieger 19II; Zhong
Zhaopeng 1986

* Wanli xu daozang; Zhengtong daozang; DAOZANG AND SUBSIDIARY
COMPILATIONS

Daozang quejing mulu

Index of Scriptures Missing from the Taoist Canon

The Daozang quejing mulu (CT 1430) is an inventory of lost texts, followed by
a copy of a stele inscription of 1275 entitled "Daozang zunjing lidai gangmu"
jf)ji~UU!l!.ffjHtf.:!ifij § (Historical Survey of the Revered Scriptures of the Taoist
Canon). The editors of the Taoist Canon of 1445 apparently drew up this list
of nearly 800 missing titles according to what was known at the time about
the contents of earlier editions of the Canon. Four titles recorded at the end
of the list can be traced to Qin Zhi' an ~ it::t: (n88- 1244), editor-in-chief of
the *Xuandu baozang (Precious Canon of the Mysterious Metropolis) of 1244.
Some, but not all, titles proscribed by an imperial decree of 1258 are also
registered in this inventory.
Over one-third of the titles listed can be found in catalogues of imperial
and private libraries of the Song. Among glaring omissions are a significant
number of well-attested components of the *Da Song Tiangong baozang of
1016 and the *Zhenghe Wanshou daozang of ca. 1II9. A copy of one scripture