臺灣大學所藏活字本《紅樓夢》簡述

臺大圖書館藏有乾隆年間萃文書屋出版之木活字版《紅樓夢》一部。此本二十四冊共一百二十回分納於四函之中。始為程偉元(小泉)序，繼以高鶚敘、目錄、像贊，後為正文。其中程序，高敘，第三回頁十下到第四回頁一下，第九回頁一上下皆為補抄。將臺大藏本與北京圖書館出版社影印發行的「程甲本」及「程乙本」比勘，而知一至三回為「程甲本」和「程乙本」之混合，第四回至三十回九十一至一百十五回及一百十七至一百二十回為「程甲本」，三十一至九十回及一百十六回為「程乙本」。但目錄及有少數頁中之特點和用字與「程甲本」、「程乙本」皆不同。《國立臺灣大學普通本線裝書目》所記有誤。

A copy of the wooden movable-type edition of Dream of the Red Chamber iscollected at the National Taiwan University Library, published by Cui-Wen Publisher in the late Qianlong era. The NTU copy has 12 chapters in 24 volumes which are kept in four cases. It begins with a foreword by Cheng Weiyuan (Xiaochuan)and is then followed successively by a preface by Gao E, a list of contents, somepictures with poems, and then the main text. There are a number of handwrittenpages, including the foreword, the preface, page 10 recto of chapter 3 to page 1recto of chapter 4, and also page 1 of chapter 9. In comparison with the reprintedcopies of the authentic Cheng's Version A and Cheng's Version B published by beijingLibrary Press, we have found that in the copy at NTU, chapters 1 to 3 are a mixture of both versions: chapters 4 to 30, 91 to 115 and 117 to 120 are Version A,chapters 31 to 90 and 116 are Version B. Moreover, the list of contents and certainfeatures or wordings in several pages are neither identical to those in Version A norVersion B.