These are precious documents for the history of Japanese literature, as the oldest existing manuscripts of the second and third volumes of the Nihon Ryoiki, which was written in the late Heian period. |
平安時代後期にさかのぼる日本霊異記の古写本で、同書の中・下巻の現存最古本として、日本文学史上貴重なものである。 |