Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)

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Short title: Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
Full title: Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, sive Scientia Sinensis latine exposita studio et opera Prosperi Intorcetta, Christiani Hedtrich, Francisci Rougemont, Philippi Couplet
Year: 1687
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Intorcetta, Prospero; Herdtricht, Christian Wolfgang; Rougemont, François de; Couplet, Philippe
Book type: Print
Language(s): Latin
Chinese text: None
Place of publication: Paris
Publisher's imprint: Parisiis, Apud Danielem Horthemels, via Jacobaea sub Maecenate. M. DC. LXXXVII. Cum privilegio Regis.
Later Editions/Reprints: Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (2011); The Jesuit Reading of Confucius
Classical source(s): Doctrine of the Mean (中庸); Great Learning (大学); Analects (论语)
Manuscript source(s): Scientiae Sinicae libri tres
Sections: Scientiae Sinicae, liber primus; Scientiae Sinicae liber secundus; Scientiae Sinicae liber tertius. Lún Yú Ratiocinantium Sermones. Versio litteralis una cum explanatione
Summary: 412 pages plus illustrations, including the translation in Latin of three of the 4 Books (Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects) produced by Prospero Intorcetta and other missionaries, with the Proemialis Declaratio of Intorcetta expanded by Couplet (pp. ix-cxxiv), and also the Vita Confucii of da Costa and Intorcetta (pp. cxvii-cxxiv), as well as other documents:
Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. I (restart)- 20)
Tabula Chronologica Trium Familiarum Imperialium Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. 1 (restart) -8)
Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae Juxta ciclos annorum LX (pp. 21-104)
Imperii sinarum et rerum in eo notabilium. Synopsis. (pp. 105-109).
The original manuscript with notes by Couplet is preserved in BNF, MS Latin 6277, with the title Scientiae Sinicae libri tres.
URLs: BnF Gallica (RES-R-691); BnF Gallica (R-816); Google Books; HathiTrust (digitised by Boston College); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Secondary Sources: Di Giovanni, Vincenzo. “Prospero Intorcetta, il primo traduttore Europeo di Confucio.” In Atti della Accademia di scienze, lettere ed arti di Palermo, vol. 4, pp. 1–15. Palermo: Ufficio tipografico di Michele Amenta, 1874.; Meynard, Thierry. “Translating the Confucian Classics: The Lunyu in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)", in Lawrence Wang-chi Wong, Bernhard Fuehrer, Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 2015.; Thierry Meynard SJ, The jesuit reading of Confucius, the first complete translation of the Lunyu (1687) published in the west, Brill, 2015.; Thierry Meynard SJ, The Confucius Sinarum Philosophus: The first translation of Confucian Classics, Institutum historicum Societas Iesu, Rome, 2011.; Golvers, Noel. "The Development of the `Confucius Sinarum philosophus' Reconsidered in the Light of New Material", In R. Malek (ed.), Western Learning and Christianity in China: the Contribution and Impact of Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592-1666), Nettetal: Steyler Verlag (Monumenta Serica), p. 1141-1164, 1998.; Golvers, Noel. “An Unobserved Letter of Prospero Intorcetta, S.J., to Godefridus Henschens, S.J., and the Printing of the Jesuit Translations of the Confucian Classics (Rome– Antwerp, 2 June 1672).” In Syntagmatia, Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund-Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy, edited by D. Sacré and J. Papy, pp. 679– 98. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009.; Lundbaek, Knud. “The First European Translations of Chinese Historical and Philosophical Works.” In China and Europe: Images and Influences in Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Thomas H.C. Lee. Hong Kong: Chinese University, 1991.; Lundbaek, Knud. “The Image of Confucianism in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus.” In Journal of History of Ideas 44/1 (1983): 19–30.; Luo Ying, “The Jesuits’ Latin Translations of the Zhongyong 中庸 During the 17th and 18th Centuries”. In Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 26 (2016), p.1-24.; Mungello, David. “The Jesuits’ Use of Chang Chu-Cheng’s Commentary in their Translation of the Confucian Four Books (1687).” In China Mission Studies Bulletin (1981): 12–22.; Mungello, David. “The Seventeenth-Century Translation Project of the Confucian Four Books.” In East Meets West: The Jesuits in China, 1582–1773, edited by Charles Ronan and Bonnie Oh, pp. 257–60. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1988.; Von Collani, Claudia. "Philippe Couplet's Missionary Attitude Towards the Chinese in Confucius Sinarum Philosophus." In Jerome Heyndrickx (ed.) Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693): The Man who Brought China to Europe, Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, pp. 37-54, 1990.
Catalogues: In Pfister, Louis (1932-1934). Notices biographiques et bibliographiques sur les Jésuites de l'ancienne Mission de Chine: 1552-1773, Imprimerie de la mission Catholique, Shanghai:

114. Le P. Philippe Couplet, 12. pp. 311-312

120. Le P. Prosper Intorcetta, pp. 326-328.; CCT Database

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