Eight Kinds of Jin and Tang Writings in Small Standard Script

Signature: Signatures and titles:

Text 1) "On the Master Yue", dated 348 with signature of copyist, Xu Sengchuan (7th century), 11 leaves

Text 2) "Yellow Court Scripture", no signature, dated 346 (2 fragments, 4 leaves)

Text 3) "Memorial on the Filial Daughter Cao Ye", no signature, (6 leaves)

Text 4) "Orchid Pavilion Preface", dated 353, no signature (7 leaves)

Text 5) "Essay on General Yue Yi", dated 348, no signature (5 incomplete leaves)

Text 6) "Rhapsodic Poem on the Goddess of the Luo River", dated 825 with signature of copyist, Liu Gongchuan (778–865), 4 leaves

Text 7) "Preface to the 'Discussion on Destroying Evil'", signature of You Shinan (558–638), 9 leaves

Text 8) "Scripture on Esoteric Credentials", dated 654 with signature of Chu Suiliang (596–658), 2 leaves

Cover, Title page, colophons:
Cover: Artist unknown, 1 column in regular script

Title page or frontispiece:
A. Tao Zhunxuan, 3 columns in large and small regular script dated 1892; 1 seal: "Jin and Tang [dynasty] Small Regular Script," 5th month of summer, the renchen year of the Guangxu reign period (1892), Tao Zhunxuan inscribed.
AA. 1 column in regular script; 1 seal: Xiao He (1668–1743), 2 columns in running script; 1 seal of Weng Tonghe

Colophons:
1. Wang Shu (1668–1743), 3 inscriptions on three occasions: 1743 (six lines), no date (3 lines), 1735 (2 lines)
2. Xiao He, dated 1838 (11 lines), who acquired the album in 1818.

Marking: Imperial seal of the Xi Xia datable to 1034, 11th century (?)

Collectors' seals:
Yuan Wenzong (r. ?)
Ming Xuanzong (r. 1425–35), 2 seals
Mr. Qian (?)
Xiang Yuanbian (1525–1590)
An Qi (1638–1743)
Weng Tonghe (1830–1904)
Weng Wang-go (b. 1919)

Weng Tonghe Chinese, China (1900–d. 1904); by descent to Wan-go H. C. Weng , Lyme, NH (by 1948–89; sold to MMA)

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Chinese Calligraphy," September 25–November 7, 1971.

Kansas City. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "Chinese Calligraphy," January 6–February 6, 1972.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Chinese Calligraphy," March 14–May 7, 1972.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Traditional Scholarly Values at the End of the Qing Dynasty: The Collection of Weng Tonghe (1830–1904)," June 30–January 3, 1999.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection," September 15, 2000–January 7, 2001.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang," September 15, 2007–February 10, 2008.

Museum Rietberg. "The Magic Power of Characters: 3000 Years of Chinese Writing and Calligraphy," November 20, 2015–March 20, 2016.

Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 127–29, pls. 16a, b.

Karlsson, Kim, and Alexandra von Przychowski, eds. Magie der Zeichen: 3000 Jahre chinesische Schiftkunst (The Magic power of Chinese characters: 3,000 years of Chinese writing and calligraphy). Exh. cat. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, [2015], p. 87, cat. no. 39.