13-05-2026, 11:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-05-2026, 11:02 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
PS. I found that there are tiny buttons at the left of each parag that link to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of the corresponding page. The text was primarily obtained by running OCR on that image.
On those images one can see text in two font sizes, one twice the size of the other. On the digital text file, the big font becomes black, and the small font is green.
But the images for that book are black and white scans. Not color scans of pages printed in black and white. Thus, if the big font text used two or more colors to distinguish the original SBJ from additions by previous editors, that information was lost...
So, that website is not even evidence that that particular printing of the Zenglei conflated the SBJ text with text from other sources. Much less evidence that all materia medicas circulating in 1300-1400 CE failed to properly mark the "pure" SBJ material.
All the best, --stolfi
On those images one can see text in two font sizes, one twice the size of the other. On the digital text file, the big font becomes black, and the small font is green.
But the images for that book are black and white scans. Not color scans of pages printed in black and white. Thus, if the big font text used two or more colors to distinguish the original SBJ from additions by previous editors, that information was lost...
So, that website is not even evidence that that particular printing of the Zenglei conflated the SBJ text with text from other sources. Much less evidence that all materia medicas circulating in 1300-1400 CE failed to properly mark the "pure" SBJ material.
All the best, --stolfi