DREAM-BOOK SOURCE CARD
Question or short claim being checked:
Title exactly as printed, in its original script:
Alternative title: printed / catalogue-supplied / my translation:
Object type: manuscript / printed edition / scholarly study / modern webpage:
Institution and shelfmark, or publisher and edition details:
Stable record URL; checked date:
Date and what it dates: work / copy / edition / study / online availability:
Named creator and role: attributed figure / author / editor / translator:
Passage location: chapter + printed page / folio + side + line:
PDF or viewer page, separately:
Short quotation exactly as checked; unclear characters marked:
Transcription source: original image / named editor / later quotation:
English wording: named translation / my translation / paraphrase:
Modern explanation, in a separate field:
What I have actually opened and read:
What remains unverified:
Do not fill a missing shelfmark, date or line number by guessing.

VERIFIED SCHOLARLY-ARTICLE EXAMPLE
The following fields come from the 
Osaka University institutional record
 and the checked PDF cover and printed page 1. They identify a scholarly article. They are not a substitute for a manuscript catalogue. [1, 2]
A verified scholarly-article record, not a manuscript description
Field
What the accessible record supplies
Scope
Japanese article title
夢の書の行方 : 敦煌本『新集周公解夢書』の研究
Title of Yuasa’s article; includes the work it studies.
Author and publisher
Yuasa, Kunihiro / 湯浅, 邦弘; Faculty of Letters, Osaka University.
Creator and publisher of the study.
Journal and issue
Machikaneyama ronso. Philosophy / 待兼山論叢. 哲学篇, volume 29.
Journal location, not a dream-book chapter number.
Publication date and extent
December 1995; printed pages 1–15.
Date and extent of the article.
File availability date
The repository lists 2012.09.22 as the file’s availability start.
Online availability; not the article’s original publication year.
Stable identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/6009
Persistent identifier for this repository item.
PDF navigation
Cover is PDF page 1; printed page 1 is PDF page 2.
Record printed and viewer page numbers separately.
A compact citation can therefore say: Kunihiro Yuasa, “夢の書の行方 : 敦煌本『新集周公解夢書』の研究,” 
Machikaneyama ronso. Philosophy
 29 (December 1995), 1–15, Osaka University repository. For the title and attribution discussed here, specify printed page 1, PDF page 2.
The item is marked open access and Version of Record in the repository. Those labels describe access and the article’s version. They do not validate divination claims, supply a historical author’s signature or show that this guide read every page. We checked the cover and selected printed pages 1, 4 and 5, with visual checks because the automatic extraction misread some characters. The rest of the article and original manuscript images are not represented as fully reviewed.

SEVEN EXPLAINED CHECKS

1. The repository lists the article in December 1995 and file availability in September 2012. Which is the article’s publication date?
December 1995.
The two dates describe different events: publication of the study and availability of its repository file.

2. Yuasa is named as the author in the record. Can the card call him the author of 新集周公解夢書?
No. Name him as the author of the study about that work.
The creator role belongs to the object described by the record, not automatically to a historical work mentioned in its title.

3. You read our English title below 新集周公解夢書. Is it an authenticated English quotation of an omen entry?
No. It is our translation of the title checked in the study.
A title translation is neither an entry from the dream book nor a quotation from a named published English translation.

4. A hypothetical webpage gives a dream meaning and says “Zhougong,” without an edition or passage. What goes in the source card?
Modern webpage; historical edition and passage not supplied.
Record its actual wording and attribution without inventing a manuscript shelfmark, date or ancient original.

5. One hypothetical online list has 27 headings. Yuasa describes 23 chapters. Is that count alone proof that the list is a forgery?
No. First check the source and how the list was arranged.
Reorganization, omissions or additions can change counts. Unidentified source relationships stay unresolved; do not merge the lists into a supposed original.

6. The PDF viewer shows page 2, while the printed page says 1. How should the attribution passage be located?
Printed page 1, PDF page 2.
Both locators help readers find it. The viewer’s extra cover explains the offset and is not a new printed page number.

7. A genuine historical entry contains a forecast. Does authenticating its wording establish the forecast’s accuracy for a reader?
No. Textual provenance and predictive accuracy require different evidence.
You can document the historical belief without treating it as a diagnosis, a future event or information about another person.

Sources:
https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/6009/
https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/6009/mrp_029-001.pdf
Checked 2 November 2026 (China time). Original manuscript images, current manuscript catalogue and whole article not claimed as reviewed.