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    amounted to 9.4 million Chinese characters in 1,000 written volumes. The Yongle Encyclopedia (completed 1408) comprised 11,095 volumes. There were many...
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  • language encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters) Yongle Encyclopedia – once contained 11,095 volumes and around 370 million Chinese...
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    2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia made in China during the Ming dynasty in 1408, which had held...
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  • Love in Delights (Ahavah ba-Ta'anugim, 1353–56) Ming dynasty Chinese, Yongle Encyclopedia, 1403–08 Domenico Bandini of Arezzo, Fons memorabilium universi...
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    in 1293 has been confirmed by a passage in the 15th-century Chinese work Yongle Encyclopedia and by the Persian historian Rashid-al-Din Hamadani in his...
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    visited over 30 countries spread out across the Indian Ocean. Under Emperor Yongle, this naval undertaking served primarily as a deliverer of letters demanding...
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