Bakjega Gobon Bukhagui

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2291

Category

Books & Records

Era

조선 후기(18세기 후반)

Designated year

2025

Location

수원시, 경기도— 경기도 수원시 팔달구 창룡대로 21(매향동, 수원화성박물관)

Coordinates

37.282675, 127.019002Kakao address conversion

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The Northern Learning Comprehensive Treatise represents a comprehensive policy treatise compiled by Park Jega (1750-1805) following his 1778 journey to Beijing during the Qing dynasty, presenting systematic methodologies for comprehensive reform and openness across social and economic policy domains, establishing a foundational guide for national development and revival. Customarily organized into interior and exterior sections, the interior section addresses reform methodologies for various tools and equipment, while the exterior section presents reform proposals concerning governmental institutions and policies. Multiple formats of the Northern Learning Comprehensive Treatise appear in repositories domestically and internationally, including interior-exterior editions, combined editions, preliminary editions, and presentation editions. The Suwon Hwaseong Museum's copy is distinguished as manuscript draft created by Park Jega himself, most proximate in composition date to the original version, thereby possessing exceptional value compared to other manuscript formats. This manuscript subsequently served as the source text for diverse transmitted manuscript copies, with the present edition's influence determining the subsequent editions' content ordering, terminology, documented content, and descriptive methodology and foundational framework direction. The present designation reveals extraordinary documentary value through the marginalia annotations and textual revisions visible throughout the manuscript, permitting observation of the manuscript's progressive revision, supplementation, and editorial processes. The manuscript preserves Park Jiwon's (1737-1805) personal calligraphic preface, with the manuscript handwriting itself constituting cultural heritage material possessing documentary and artistic value. The present manuscript represents an exceptionally rare example containing paired handwritten contributions from these two significant historical figures, while simultaneously constituting a definitive representative treatise of late Joseon Practical Learning tradition.

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