Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

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Title of translation
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 translation
Goa
Canton
Classical Source(s)
Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
Sections
1667 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)
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>.
Location(s) of copies (MS)
located @ Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo
located @ Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV)
located @ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
located @ Biblioteèque Nationale de France
located @ Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
located @ Bibliothèeque Municipal de Lione
located @ Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana
located @ Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze
located @ Archivum Romanun Societatis Iesu (ARSI)
located @ Biblioteca della Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo
located @ Universiteitsbibliotheek di Leiden
located @ Archivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (ANTT)
Later Editions
Reprinted without the Chinese text in L. Magalotti, Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China, In Firenze, da Giuseppe Manni, 1697: Confucii vita (p. 123), Sinarum Scientia (p. 149).
Adam Franciscus Kollarius, Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia, Vindobonae, Typis et Sumptibus Ioannis Thomae Trattner, aulea et inclytorum inferioris Austriae ordinum typogr., anno MCCLXI. Pp. 1211-1256: “Sinarum scientia politico-moralis, secundum authenticum exemplar Sinico-Latinum, a R. P. Prospero Intorcetta Siculo, Societatis Jesu".
Anastatic reprints
<p>Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. <em>Sinarum scientia politico-moralis</em>, Palermo, Regione siciliana, 2010.</p>
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URLs
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http://www.fondazioneintorcetta.info/intorcetta-shanghai.html
docbcrs.bibliotecaregionalepalermo.it/rari_1008.pdf
Bibliography

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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