浙江大学向大英图书馆捐赠《宋画全集》
大英图书馆的亚洲和非洲部收藏大量的中国艺术品、书籍和手稿。一些收藏品是大英图书馆最古老的藏品，如约3500年前的中国甲骨文、收藏家汉斯·斯隆爵士的中国18世纪藏书、世界上最古老的公元868年印刷的《金刚经》。
昨天，一份珍贵的藏品——内含1000多幅宋朝精美绘画的《宋画全集》新加入这个藏品队伍。《宋画全集》由来自中国杭州的浙江大学代表团慷慨捐赠，该代表团由党委书记金德水先生带领，他们在中国驻英国大使馆文化部的代表陪同下参观大英图书馆。
《宋画全集》，共21卷，用高清晰图像展示了公元960年到1279年间宋朝的约1000幅精美绘画。为了编撰《宋画全集》，浙江大学历时三年（注：应为七年）时间，联系世界各地收藏绘画原件的机构和组织，拍摄高清晰的图像，并第一次用文本信息和相关文献的形式展示了这些绘画。
大英图书馆收藏部主任卡罗琳·布莱兹尔和我本人接受了这次捐赠。我相信，这些珍贵书籍将会受益于大英图书馆的研究人员，我也相信，这些资源能帮助我们对文化和学术辉煌时期的中国宋朝做出更多研究。
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Book containing 1000 beautiful paintings from the Song Dynasty period is donated to the British library by ZhejiangUniversity
The British Library’s Asian and African department is home to a vast collection of Chinese artefacts, books and manuscripts. These include the oldest items in the Library, the oracle bones – some 3500 years old, 18th century Chinese books from Sir Hans Sloane’s own collections, and the Diamond Sutra – the earliest printed ‘book’ in the world, dated AD 868.
As of yesterday, these collections will now be joined by a new acquisition generously donated byZhejiangUniversityinHangzhou,China. A host of delegates including Mr. Jin Deshui, Chairman of University Council, and representatives from the Cultural Section of the Chinese Embassy inLondon, visited the Library in order to deliver an impressive set of volumes, which you can see below.
The twenty-one volumes entitled Complete Collection of Paintings of the Song Dynasty, fully exhibit in beautiful high-resolution images the approximately 1000 paintings produced during the Song dynasty, which ruled Chinabetween 960 and 1279.
Over a three year period,ZheijangUniversitypainstakingly compiled the collection of paintings, with supporting text and documents, contacting different organisations who keep the originals of the paintings and organising for them to be photographed and brought together for the first time.
This donation, received gratefully by Caroline Brazier, Director of Collections at the British Library and I, will be a remarkable resource for researchers using the Library and we hope will bring many new discoveries around this fantastically rich period of art and scholarship.
Frances Wood, Lead Curator of Chinese Studies
大英图书馆网址： http://www.bl.uk/
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