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 Sapientia Sinica.
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: Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. Sinarum scientia politico-moralis, Palermo, Regione siciliana, 2010.
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URLs: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0006/bsb00064763/images/index.html?id=00064763&groesser=&fip=yztsewqewqewqxdsydwweayayztsqrs&no=1&seite=3; 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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