Patent bestowing a posthumous name upon the consort of the Eastern Palace東宮妃主諡冊文
維大歲丁酉十月朔己卯初七日乙酉。王若曰。天不畀年。愴矣英靈之奄逝。諡能成德。欲其芳跡之丕揚。咨爾敬穆賢妃金氏。千年故國之王孫。三葉功臣之侯閥。夙將婉孌。升配元良。謂成內助之功。增耀重暉之德。何遽嬰於危頓。曾不假於須臾。脫可挽牽。奈此迫忽。始來兮猶月未滿。倏往兮如花易凋。不圖至斯。何嗟及矣。噫閱世猶無幾歲。況入宮纔及數年。旣得生男之祥。尋臻誕女之慶。凡事大早。惟朕自疑。果於乃齡而有斯故。嗚呼。禮莫爲重。宜豐送往之儀。行所由生。將擧易名之典。今遣大尉具官某，大常卿具官某等。備禮冊命。贈諡曰某。汗靑筠而灑翰。代彤管之流輝。二字之稱。萬世之美。貞魂如在。懿冊是膺。嗚呼哀哉。
On the eulyu day, the seventh from the gimyo day that was the first of the tenth month of the jeongyu (丁酉) year, the king spoke thus.
Heaven granted her no years, and I grieve that so excellent a spirit has suddenly gone. A posthumous name can bring virtue to completion, and I would have her fragrant traces made greatly known.
Ah, you, Worthy Consort Gyeongmok (敬穆賢妃) of the Kim house. You were a royal descendant of an old kingdom of a thousand years and of a house of meritorious servants through three generations. Early, in your lovely and comely person, you rose to be the partner of the heir apparent, and I thought that you would accomplish the merit of helping from within and make brighter still a virtue that shone twice over. How is it that you fell suddenly into a grave illness and were not granted even a little reprieve? Would that you could have been held back and drawn to us; but what is to be done with this haste and suddenness?
Your coming at the first — and the moon not yet full, your sudden going — it is as when a flower withers soon.
I did not reckon that it would come to this, and what can sighing reach now? Alas, the years she passed in the world were few enough, and fewer still were the years since she entered the palace. Already she had the auspice of bearing a son, and then came the happy event of bearing a daughter. Because all of it was far too early, I doubted in my own mind, and sure enough at that age such a thing came to pass.
Alas, nothing is weightier than the rites, and the ceremony of sending her off shall be made ample. Conduct derives from the way one has lived, and so I shall now raise the rite of bestowing a posthumous name. I therefore send the Defender-in-Chief so-and-so of such-and-such office, and the Chief Minister of the Court of Sacrifices so-and-so of such-and-such office, to perform the rites and proclaim the patent and bestow the posthumous name of such-and-such. Green bamboo is held to the fire and the brush is set moving, taking the place of the flowing light of the red brush-shaft. A style of two characters is a beauty of ten thousand generations. Her upright spirit seems present: receive, then, this fair patent. Alas, how sad.