Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex

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Full title: Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex, nimirum adultorum schola, immutabile medium, liber sententiarum, memcius, filialis observantia, parvulorum schola
Year: 1711
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Noël, François
Book type: Print
Language(s): Latin
Chinese text: None
Place of preparation: Prague
Place of publication: Prague
Publisher's imprint: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandae, in Collegio So. Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Joachimim Joannem Kamenicky p.t. Factorem
Later Editions/Reprints: Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735); Les Livres Classiques de l’Empire de la Chine, recueillis par le Pere F. Noel, précédés d’Observations sur l’origine, la nature & les effets de la philosophie morale & politique dans cet empire.
Classical source(s): Doctrine of the Mean (中庸); Great Learning (大学); Analects (论语); Mencius (孟子); Classic of Filial Piety (孝经); Elementary Learning (小学)
Manuscript source(s): Immutabile Medium ex sinico in latinum idioma traductum; Liber Sententiarum ex sinico in latinum idioma traductus; Mencius ex sinico in latinum idioma traductus
Sections: Liber I. Adultorum Schola seu Doctrina, sinicè Ta Hio; Liber II. Immutabile Medium, sinicè Chum Yum; Liber III. Liber Sententiarum, sinicè Lun Yu; Liber IV. Memcius, sinicè Mem Tsu; Liber V. Filialis Observantia, sinicè Hiao Kim; Liber VI. Parvulorum Schola seu Doctrina, sinicè Siao Hio
Summary: This work contains a new Latin translation of the Four Books, including the first translation of the Mencius published in a Western language. It also contains the Classic of Filial Piety and Elementary Learning. It also includes translations of Zhu Xi’s prefaces to the Four Books .
URLs: Google Books
Secondary Sources: Wong Ching Him, Felix (正) (2013): 耶士方的拉丁文《孟子》翻 [On the Latin Translation of Mencius of Françcois Noel, SJ], Journal of Chinese Studies 《中文化研究所》, 57, 133-172.; Liscak, Vladimr 2015. "Francois Noël (1651-1729) and his Latin translations of Confucian Classical books published in Prague in 1711", Anthropologia integra, vol.6, no. 2, pp. 45-52.; 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.
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: 169. Le P. Françcois Noël, 3. p. 417.; CCT Database

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Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735)	Translation
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Les Livres Classiques de l’Empire de la Chine, recueillis par le Pere F. Noel, précédés d’Observations sur l’origine, la nature & les effets de la philosophie morale & politique dans cet empire.	Translation

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