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'An Introduction to the Sijo - A Form of Short Korean Poem' by R. Rutt, 1958
Copy of Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume XXXIV, containing Rutt's article.
Bibliography for the 'History of Chinese Printing', prepared by T. H. Tsien [錢存訓 / Chhien Tshun-Hsün / Qian Cunxun], and related documents, 1971-01-25 - 1971-06-24
Categories of books include rare books; Works in Chinese; Works in Japanese and Korean; Works in Western Languages. The related documents include 3 related letters from Tsien; copy of 1 letter of reply from Joseph Needham.
Copies of letters from Joseph Needham to Derek J. de Solla Price of Yale University, U.S.A. and John H. Combridge, about an account from the 'Yijo Sillok' abut a Korean court clock of 1434, 1962-02-22
The documents also include a copy of Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen's translation of the passage.
Copy of Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen's translation from the 'Yijo Sillok' about 'Astronomical Equipment made under King Sejong of Choson, Korea, 1962
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Copy of 'Tables of the McCune-Reischauer System for the Romanization of Korean', ('Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'), 1961
These files contain notes and correspondence on topics collected after the publication of the various 'Science and Civilisation in China' volumes, kept by Joseph Needham for use in the production of second editions of those volumes.
Correspondence with from Donald H. Keith of the Institute of Nautical Technology, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., about his work on the history of Chinese ships, and related documents, 1980-11-15 - 1980-12-27
The letters are particulary concerned with a Chinese shipwreck at Sinan-gun, Korea. The correspondence comprises 2 letters from Keith; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.
The related documents comprise photocopies of diagrams of the ship, prepared by Korean naval architect assigned to its reconstruction.; 2 leaflets describing the Institute; copy of an article by Keith entitled 'A Fourteenth-Century Shipweck at Sinan-gun', ('Archaeology', March/April 1980).
Envelope containing material relating to reconstructions of the Korean turtle ship, 1972-04-25
The documents comprise a postcard showing a reconstruction; cutting of a Korean newspaper article.
The material was given to Joseph Needham by M. J. Daniels of Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. Needham also notes 'letter with astron. file'. See SCC6/10/20.
Invitation and brochure for the 2nd International Acupuncture Scientific Meeting of the Korea Acupuncture Association, March 1981, 1981
The material was found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, following his death in 1995.
Korean newspaper report of the Fifteenth International Congress on the History of Science, Edinburgh, 1977, 1977-09-30
The report has minor annotation by Joseph Needham.
Leaflet about a 'symposium on the observatory Kyongju (old capital of Silla)', 1973
The material relates to lectures given by Needham on topics from the 'Science and Civilisation in China' project and to conferences he attended in order to further his work. The documents in this section include correspondence arranging the events, Needham's preparatory notes, draft and final typescripts of papers as well as Needham's notes from the contributions of other speakers.
Letter from Klaus Flessel of the University of Tübingen, Germany, about floating bridges in Chinese during the Song period, and related documents, 1970-07-28 - 1970-08-03
The related documents comprise a copy of Joseph Needham's reply; photocopied pages from a book by Chou Sangun entitled 'Han Kuo Kho Hsueh Chi Shu Shih', (Seoul, 1966), showing a late eighteenth century Korean picture of a floating bridge.
Letter from Prof. B. H. Hazard of San Jose State College, California, U.S.A., about Korean evidence for ship armour, firearms, etc., and copy of Joseph Needham's reply, 1971-05-05 - 1971-05-20
Joseph Needham's file title reads 'Naut. Ancill, misc > 71 > P-F 75 > 2nd Edition Material'.
New Testament, 1883 - 1886
ff.588; 191 x 155mm, 210 x 168mm; 185 x 330mm; text size 160 x 115mm, 195 x 130mm; 7 vertical lines and 10 vertical lines on doubled paper in 12 note books.
A slip reads: Mss. From which New T. was printed 1887.
Translated by John Ross and published Mukden, BFBS, 1887. (DM 5993).
New Testament, 1887
ff.405; 180 x 224mm; text size 153 x 172mm; 12 vertical lines on doubles paper in 7 note books.
A slip reads: Also included: Translation of Corean NT into Chinese Wen-li 1887 ff.96-149 blank.
Extract from Edit. Min., May 24, 1882: a letter from John Ross: he employs two Coreans as translator...one of the Coreans, who was a writer in a Government office, translates from the Chinese Wenli NT.
Newsletter of the T. S. I. (T'Oegyehak Study Institute), Korea, 1986-09
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Photocopy of a paper by Jeon Sang-Woon entitled 'On the Astronomical Instruments of Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla', ('Komunhwa'), 1964-10
These documents compliment the correspondence catalogued as NRI2/2/4/5. Occasionally there are duplicates, but these have been retained for continuity of the files.
Photocopy of Joseph Needham's notes on 'Astronomical Instruments and Clockwork' in the 'Chungbo Munhon Pigo' ['Comprehensive study of Korean civilisation, revised and expanded'], (1790, 1908), 1960 - 1964
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Photographs of pages from the text of the 'Chungbo Munhon Pigo' ['Comprehensive study of Korean civilisation, revised and expanded'], (1790, 1908), 1980 - 1985
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Photographs of the text of the 'Yijo Sillok' relating to the re-equipment of the Seoul Observatory, 1980 - 1985
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Photographs of the text of the 'Yijo Sillok' relating to 'the stiking clepsydra', 1980 - 1985
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, John H. Combridge and John S. Major, 'Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean astronomical instruments and clocks', 1380-1780', (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Program for 'The Third Korea-Japan History of Science Seminar', 1986-10
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
R, 1759-1996 and undated
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'R'.
Sub-file of notes and other documents relating to Sejong's Re-equiping of the Seoul Observatory', 1962 - 1985
The file includes annotated drafts by Major for that section of the work; copies of related correspondence between Major, Joseph Needham, Derek Price and John Combridge, Francis Maddison and Jeon Sang Woon, (1962-1965)
'The Chinese Learning and Pleasures of a Country Scholar, An Account of Traditional Chinese Studies in Rural Korea' by R. Rutt, 1960-04
Copy of Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume XXXVI, containing Rutt's article.
'The Flower Boys of Silla (Hwarang) Notes on the Sources' by R. Rutt, 1961-10
Copy of Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume XXXVIII, containing Rutt's article.