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A copy of Unpublished Manuscripts of Court Historian Lin by Lin Chengfang
Qing.
Vertical length: 23.0cm, horizontal length: 14.3cm, thickness: 1.1cm.
Copy, half a page, 9 rows and 23 characters, no frame, thread binding, four albums. Seals: “Qiubo Hall”, “Small Rong'an Hall's collection”. These albums incorporate poems, elegiacs, theses, tablet inscriptions, prefaces, postscripts, etc. written by Lin Chengfang. This piece was formerly collected by Li Xiangen, and donated by Li Xiangen's eldest son-in-law Wang Yejin in 2008..
Lin Chengfang, also known as Wenfeng, was from Sanshui, Guangdong, a scholar in 1586 during Ming Emperor Wanli's reign, and once served as official editor and Jiangxi senator. He was good at writing, and once worked for the Imperial Academy. This piece is the only copy of poems of Lin Chengfang available today, and was exhibited at the 1940 Guangdong Cultural Relic Exhibition in Hong Kong..
