Nganhwei

A literary official of high repute for scholarship, Chu Yün* by name, at that time filling the office of Literary Chancellor of the province of Nganhwei, memorialized the throne, calling attention to the manuscript collection known as the Yung Loh Ta Tien which was stored up in the Han-lin college at Peking,* and which comprised a great number of ancient works unknown to the world at that day.