EARALANGKOENJAMK-A001

EARA

East Asian Records Archive

East Asian Manuscript Restoration Institute

Current Restoration

MK-A001

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About the Archive

EARA is an independent research project for the collection, preservation and digital restoration of records found across East Asia.

Some of these documents were found severely damaged. Reading and digital restoration are proceeding in stages.

Archive Status

Recovered Documents1
Volumes Under Restoration7 / 8
Verified Passages41
Damaged Fragments42
Illegible Characters349

※ The last three rows and the volume count are obtained by counting the transcribed original directly. Only the number of released documents is a constant from the ledger.

Access

Public Archive1 Document Available
Restricted Documents■■

Timeline

  1. 1931Estimated Origin
  2. 1978Discovered
  3. —No record — 48 years
  4. 2026Digital Restoration Begins
  5. —In Progress

Current Restoration

A record of restoration work on document MK-A001. The figures below are based on the original transcribed so far.

A leaf of Volume One, Hon-gyeol. The paper is torn away in places and the glyphs are effaced.
SCAN 032162%
Before revision
The same leaf photographed again. Far more of the glyphs survive than in the earlier image.
SCAN 041789%
v0.28 published
The same leaf of 巫經 第一卷 魂結. Nothing was erased — it was photographed twice — the legibility was published on 2026.04.12.

Volume Legibility

第一卷 魂結 the Knotting of Souls■■■■■■■■■□89%

lines 10 · damaged spans 10 · unreadable glyphs 51

第二卷 五氣 the Five Breaths■■■■■■■■■□88%

lines 5 · damaged spans 5 · unreadable glyphs 30

第三卷 緣錄 the Record of Ties■■■■■■■■■□86%

lines 10 · damaged spans 10 · unreadable glyphs 51

第四卷 財錄 the Record of Means■■■■■■■□□□74%

lines 5 · damaged spans 5 · unreadable glyphs 46

第五卷 大流 the Great Current■■■■■□□□□□46%

lines 1 · damaged spans 1 · unreadable glyphs 22

第六卷 歲流 the Year's Current■■■□□□□□□□28%

lines 1 · damaged spans 1 · unreadable glyphs 28

第七卷 凶錄 the Record of Ills■■■■■■■□□□73%

lines 8 · damaged spans 8 · unreadable glyphs 77

第八卷 鬼門 the Ghost Gate■□□□□□□□□□10%

lines 1 · damaged spans 2 · unreadable glyphs 44 · restoration not scheduled

※ The overall figure of 37% is the share of the whole document that has been worked on. The per-volume rates above are the share of glyphs read within the part already transcribed — a different layer.

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