彙集雅俗通十五音 / Hui ji ya su tong shi wu yin [= An elegant collection of 15 tones(?)]

[n.p., 1820. Stab stitched manuscript, 9.5" x 6.5", pp. [2], 409, [1]; text in Traditional Chinese; limp cloth covers; covers soiled and roughly restitched, first leaf partially perished with loss to text, about half a dozen pages adhered to each other, one leaf chipped with some loss to text, some nibbling to the top of first 60 pages, not affecting text, which is neatly executed and legible with a few dozen corrections, good. Hui ji ya su tong shi wui yin was a southern Hokkien rhyming dictionary produced in the early 19th century by Xie Xiulan and later printed in 1869. This manuscript copy follows the general structure of the printed edition, but despite our best (albeit illiterate) efforts we could not identify any point in which the text aligned. While the 15 listed tones are the same, the section headers for our copy do not seem to include the words in the printed edition and vice versa. For example, our manuscript has headings for the following: 春,朝,丹,花,香,佳,川,書,湏,今, etc., none of which seem to appear in the printed edition. Whether this is an entirely separate project, a portion of the original manuscript that failed to make it to print, or an offshoot enhancement, we cannot say.