Samyutagama Sutra, chapter 25, from the Jinsushan Tripitaka

Inscription: Artist’s Inscription (327 columns in standard script)

First 3 columns:

Deposited in the Guanghui Monastery on Mount Jinsu in Haiyan (in Zhejiang province), in a flow of eleven sheets of paper (?)
Samyutagama Sutra, chapter twenty-five
Translated by the Indian Buddhist master Guṇabhadra (394–468) in the Yuanjia reign ear (424–453) of Emperor Yuandi of the Song dynasty.[1]

海鹽金粟山廣惠禪院大藏，流一十一紙
雜阿含經卷第二十五
宋元帝元嘉年中天竺三藏法師求那跋陀羅譯。

Label strip

Unidentified artist, 1 column in standard script, undated:

唐人書金粟山大藏雜阿含經卷第二十五。元

Colophon

Liang Guozhi 梁國治 (1723–1786), Liu Yong 劉墉, Peng Yuanrui 彭元瑞 (1731–1803), Dong Gao 董誥 (1740–1818), Cao Wenzhi 曹文埴 (1735–1798), Jin Shisong 金士松 (1730–1800), 8 columns in standard script, undated; 2 seals:

右 《雜阿含經》 一卷亦廣惠禪院物，不著名款，而末有“東坡居士”印，又“趙子昂氏”印，二印傳刻諸帖中多有之，其篆法嫩醜，色澤新枯，皆贋者所仿為，後無名氏跋遂以爲東坡真跡，謂與世俗所傳坡書真僞迥別，蓋彼亦自知不類，翻作是說以相狥耳。且如卷中“世”字闕筆，“愍”偏旁作“民”，乃唐人避太宗諱，足證其是唐藏，而非坡書矣。臣梁國治、臣劉墉、臣彭元瑞、臣董誥、臣曹文植、臣金士松恭識。 [印]： 臣、治

Inscription (carved on jade clasp, 4 columns in clerical script):

乾隆御賞
唐人書金粟山大藏襍阿含經卷第二十五

Collectors’ seals

Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 （1254–1322）
趙氏子昂

Shi Mingzhan 石民瞻 （late 13th c.）
石民瞻印

Zhou Boqi 周伯琦 （1298–1369）
周伯琦印

Qing emperor Qianlong 清帝乾隆 （r. 1736–1795）
乾隆御覽之寳
乾隆御覽之寳
三希堂精鋻璽
宜子孫
太上皇帝之寳
乾隆鋻賞
乾清宮鋻藏寳
祕笈珠林
祕殿新編
珠林重定

Qing emperor Jiaqing 清帝嘉慶 （1760–1820）
嘉慶御覽之寳

Qing emperor Xuantong 清帝宣統 （1906–1967）
宣統御覽之寳

Gu Luofu 顧洛阜 (John M. Crawford, Jr., 1913–1988）
顧洛阜
漢光閣

Pang Nai 龐耐 (Alice Boney, 190l–1988)
龐耐

Unidentified:
四明謝氏寳漢樓真賞

Illegible: 1

[1]Translation from Department records.

John M. Crawford Jr. American, New York (by 1971–d. 1988; bequeathed to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Text and Image: The Interaction of Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy," January 23–August 16, 1999.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Printed Image in China: From the 8th to the 21st Centuries," May 5–July 29, 2012.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection (Rotation Two)," May 7–October 11, 2016.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine," August 24, 2019–January 5, 2020.

Wang Jie 王杰 et al. Midian zhulin shiqu baoji xubian 秘殿珠林石渠寶笈續編 (Catalogue of painting and calligraphy in the Qianlong imperial collection, second series). Preface dated 1793. Facsimile reprint of an original manuscript copy. 8 vols. vol. 8, Reprinted ed., Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1971, p. 255.

Nakata Yūjirō 中田勇次郎, and Fu C. Y. Shen 傅申. Ō-Bei shūzō Chūgoku hōsho meiseki shū 歐米收藏中國法書名蹟集 (Masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy in American and European collections) vol. 1, Tokyo: Chūōkōron-sha, 1981–82, pls. 40–41.

Shih Shou-ch'ien, Maxwell K. Hearn, and Alfreda Murck. The John M. Crawford, Jr., Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Checklist. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 11, cat. no. 2.