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The Yongle emperor, detail of a portrait; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
The Yongle dadian, a monumental compilation commissioned by the Yongle emperor during the Ming dynasty, consisted of 11,095 volumes.12
These volumes contained a total of 22,937 manuscript rolls, or chapters, and were intended to serve as a comprehensive collection of Chinese literature covering the Confucian canon, history, philosophy, and the arts and sciences.1