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Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

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Short title

Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

Year

1667

End year (multi-year work)

1669

Translator(s)/Commentators(s)

Intorcetta, Prospero

Book type

Woodblock print

Language(s)

Latin

Chinese text

Characters and transliteration

Place of preparation

Goa

Canton

Archive

Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo

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XVI H 47

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV)

callNumber

Rossiana 3482 [old shelfmark XV, 422]

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Sin 54-C ALT SIN

Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

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Chinois, 9337

Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

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EC66.3 /7438

Bibliothèeque Municipal de Lione

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SJ ZSI 00875

Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana

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MS 3274

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze

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Rari 79, Palat. 3.1.7.7.

Biblioteca della Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo

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Rari-VII

Leiden University Libraries

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SINOL.VGK 918.1

Archivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (ANTT)

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Armario Jesuitico, liv. 11, f. 89 a 126

Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI)

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Jap. Sin III 3b-3c

Facsimiles

<p>Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. <em>Sinarum scientia politico-moralis</em>, Palermo, Regione siciliana, 2010.</p>

Later Editions/Reprints

Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia

Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Casesarea Vindobonensi

Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China

Relations de divers voyages curieux

Classical source(s)

Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)

Sections

Scientiae Sinicae Liber Secundus Versio Literalis. Medium Constanter tenendum

Summary

A literal translation of the Zhongyong, without the comments from Chinese commentators, but with a Vita Confucii written by Intorcetta on the basis of the biography in <em>Sapientia Sinica</em>.

Digitisations

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URLs

Fondazione Intorcetta

Biblioteca Regionale Palermo

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.

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.

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.

Paolo Boeonio-Brocchieri, “Sinarum scientia politico-moralis”, in Confucio e il Cristianesimo, 2 vols (Turin: Tipografia Vincenzo Bona, 1972–1973), 2:83–199.

Rodney Lokaj, Alessandro Tosco ed. Sinarum scientia politico-moralis, la scienza politico-morale dei Cinesi, The political and moral views of the Chinese, Palermo: Fondazione Federico II, 2021

Catalogues

In Chan, Albert (2002). Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue: Japonica-Sinica I-IV, New York: M.E. Sharpe: ARSI, Jap.Sin III, 3b, p. 477; ARSI, Jap.Sin III, 3c, p. 479.

In Cordier, Henri (1901). L'imprimerie sino-européenne en Chine. Bibliographie des ouvrages publiés en Chine par les Européens au XVIIe et au XVIII siècle Paris, Imprimerie nationale, Ernest Leroux editeur: 85-bis 3.

In Pelliot, Paul (1995). Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits et imprimés chinois de la Bibliothèque Vaticane: a posthumous work, Kyoto: BAV, Stamp.Ross.3482: Brief note, p. 62.

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: 427. 1669, Da Costa, Sinarum Scientia Politico Moralis.

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Title	Class
Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia	Translation
Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Casesarea Vindobonensi	Translation
Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China	Translation
Relations de divers voyages curieux	Translation