The book is a translation into Korean of the poetry of a famous Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu (712-770). The poems were translated by a royal fiat during the reign of King Seongjong by Yu Yun-gyeom, Manager of Confucian Scriptures (jeonhan) in the Office of Special Advisers (hongmugwan). To paraphrase the book’s title, Bullyu dugonbusi Eonhae is “The Poetry of Du Fu, Vice Director of Ministry of Public Works, Translated into Korean under Classification of Topics". The classification was based on that of The Poetry of Du Fu Classified and Annotated (分門集注杜工甫詩), and the fact was reflected in the title of the book. All the 1,647 poems collected in the Classified and Annotated Poems of Du Fu (纂註分類杜詩) are contained in this book as well as 16 poems by other poets. With the translation and annotation of these poems, the book is for the sake of brevity also called Dusieonhae. The first edition of this book was published in the 12th year of King Seongjong’s reign (1481). Classical Chinese letters were printed in the Eulhae typeface either when they were written alone or were written mixed with the Korean letters. The book title on the opening page is Bullyu Dugonbusi Eonhae Gwon Isibil, with no separate mention of the author. The script is printed within a border marked with a single line along the four sides of the page. On each page, there are eight columns, each of which has 17 characters. The translated verses are printed in Korean with some nouns left in classical Chinese, but in a smaller type than that used in the original verses. In old Korean books, a leaf is made of a long sheet of paper folded half, so two pages are printed on the same side, not on the opposite sides, of the paper. In this book, before its leaves are bound, the titles of individual poems and the page number were printed in the middle of the long unfolded sheet that contains two-page contents, so that when the book was bound the information on the book could be seen on the folded outer edge (pansim), not on the spine, of the book. The Korean letters are marked with side dots that characterize the language before the Japanese Invasion in 1592. The book has 45 leaves (90 pages), mostly in good condition, and new covers (both front and back) attached instead of the missing original covers.

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