The collective name for the administrative records and institutional history of the Song Dynasty. Though the original volumes were mostly lost by the Qing Dynasty, the scholar Xu Song compiled remaining fragments from the 永乐大典 yǒng​lè​dà​diǎn to create the extant version, 宋会要辑稿 sòng​huì​yào​jí​gǎo.

(bound form) to collect and arrange materials into a publication; to edit or compile

draft or sketch of a text, speech, or painting; manuscript