Last Updated: November 6, 2025
(Published for the first time November 5, 2025)
changsŏin 藏書印: Seals, stamps, stickers of ownership indicating collectors, readers, connoisseurs, and otherwise handlers and owners of books.
injang 印章 / inmun 印文: writing and design of seals
inbo 印譜: seal catalogues, seal alumbs
ex libris: from the Latin word "ex-librīs" referring to a "bookplate," a printed or otherwise decorative label attached on the physical book.
Databases:
Database of Collectors' Seals Inscriptions found in Korean rare books listed on the Koryŏ Taehakkyo Haeoe Han'gukhak Charyo Sent'ŏ 고려대학교 해외한국학 자료센터
Seals of Ownership related from Chosŏn Korea, digital exhibit curated by the National Library of Korea
Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals, The Digital Orientalist
Bibliography:
Pak Ch’ŏlsang 박철상. Sŏjae e salda: Chosŏn chisigin 24-in ŭi sŏjae iyagi 서재에 살다: 조선 지식 24인의 서재 이야기 (Living in the study: Stories of 24 Chosŏn intellectuals and their studies). Seoul: Munhak tongne, 2014.
Chŏng Min 정민. Tol wi e saegin saenggak 돌 뒤에 새긴 생각(Originally, Haksandang inbo ki 學山堂印譜記 [Record of Haksandang Album of Seal Inscriptions]) Yŏllimwŏn, 2017.
Fölster, Max Jakob. "‘Traces in Red’: Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript‘Traces in Red’: Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript." In: Ciotti, Giovanni / Lin, Hang (eds.): Manuscripts in Time and Space: 3 Perspectives from Paratexts. Berlin: de Gruyter 2016 (Studies in Manuscript Cultures 7), 161– 183.
Fölster, Max Jakob. "Introduction to the History, Use and Function of Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals." In: manuscript cultures 08/2015, 25–52.