ChinaKnowledge.de -
An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History and Literature

Liang Qianqiu yinju 梁千秋印雋

Jul 23, 2023 © Ulrich Theobald

Liang Qianqiu yinjun 梁千秋印雋, abbreviated Yinjun 印雋 "The beauty of seals", is a seal album compiled during the late Ming period 明 (1368-1644) by Liang Hao 梁傐 (d. 1644), also called Liang Zhi 梁袟 (梁袠), courtesy name Qianqiu 千秋, from Nanjing.

Figure 1. Seal imprints from the Liang Qianqiu yinjun 梁千秋印雋

His catalogue of 4 juan length was finished in 1610. It mainly includes reproductions of the famous seal maker He Zhen 何震 (c. 1530-1606) that had been created for Shen Shengyu 沈生予. Each page presents between two and six seals, and gives transcriptions of the seal script into regular script. The book includes a total number of 439 imprints of seals.

Source:
Wang Chongren 王崇人, ed. (2002). Zhongguo shuhua yishu cidian 中國書畫藝術辭典, Vol. Zhuanke 篆刻卷 (Xi'an: Shaanxi renmin yishu chubanshe), 146-147.