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The Colophon by Jeong So鄭玿 跋
Jewang Ungi (Rhymed Chronicle of Emperors and Kings) Lower Book From Pangu to the Jurchen Jin, from Dangun to Goryeo — an epic that weaves the two histories, of China and of the East, into verse. Declaring that there is a world apart in Liaodong, it sets the history of Korea beside that of China, and it is one of the first histories to sing of Dangun as the founding ancestor of every state on the Korean peninsula. The author's own one hundred and ninety-seven interlinear notes are carried with it.
1The colophon by Jeong So
臣玿初受書記, 將赴此州, 右司議大夫·寶文署直學士·知制誥, 尹公珤, 承勅, 以居士臣, 李承休製進, 歷代韻紀, 開板事, 傳囑. 是以, 募工彫板, 以壽其傳. 司錄參軍事·兼掌書記·升仕郞·良醞令, 鄭玿, 跋.
When I, your servant So (玿), first received the post of secretary and was about to set out for this prefecture, Lord Yun Bo, right grand master of remonstrance, academician in attendance of the Bomun Bureau and drafter of royal edicts, received the royal command and passed on to me the charge of cutting blocks for the Yeokdae ungi, which the lay scholar, your servant Yi Seunghyu, had composed and presented. So I gathered craftsmen and cut the blocks, to make its passing down last long. Colophon by Jeong So, administrator of records and concurrently chief secretary, holding the rank of seungsarang, director of the Yangon Office.