Manuscript copy of Yu Chunggyo's Sarye Holgi ("Ritual Procedures of the Four Major Ceremonies").

Evidence of the persistence of Confucian ritual practice in modernizing Korea. The author, Yu Chunggyo (1832-1893), was a learned Neo-Confucian literatus. His text, prescribing correct conduct for weddings, funerals, and other private and public occasions, was first printed in 1904. Provenance: Sam Fogg, Catalogue 19, 1998, Number 75 - Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), the Norwegian manuscript collector, with his label on the inner rear cover and annotated tag tied to a secondary binding cord. Square octavo (215 x 205 mm). With 40 leaves written in black calligraphy on both sides only, illustrations and diagrams, contemporary annotations (some in red). Slightly later tipped-in manuscript sheet. Text in Chinese. Original brown limp covers and xianzhuang stitching of brown cord, covers lettered in black manuscript. General wear to covers, many leaves creased at margins, some split along fore edge, staining internally: good only.