China, seu humana institutio

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Title of translation: China, seu humana institutio
Year: 1591
End year (multi-year work): 1594
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Ruggieri, Michele
Book Type: Manuscript
Language(s): Latin
Chinese text: Few characters/transliterated characters
Place of translation: Rome; Nola; Salerno
Classical Source(s): Great Learning (大学); Doctrine of the Mean (中庸); Analects (论语); Mencius (孟子); Mingxin baojian (明心宝鉴)
Sections: 1591 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter); 1591 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter); 1591 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter); 1591 Translation of Mencius (孟子) (Chapter); 1591 Translation of Mingxin baojian (明心宝鉴) (Chapter)
Summary: Latin translation by Ruggieri, in the Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II at Rome (Fondo gesuitico n. 1185/3314).
Location(s) of copies (MS): located @ Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II at Rome
Bibliography: Michele Ferrero ed. Il primo Confucio latino: Il grande studio, La dottrina del giusto mezzo, I dialoghi : trascrizione, traduzione e commento di un manoscritto inedito di Michele Ruggieri SJ (1543-1607), Veterum et coaevorum sapientia, vol. 12, LAS Roma, 2019.; 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: 7. "Le P. Sommervogel, dans son supplement (Bibliotheque, t. IX, col. 826), signale un manuscrit du P. Ruggieri conserve a la Bibliotheque Vittorio-Emanuele a Rome (Mss. gesuitici; n. 1185(3314)): "China, seu humana institutio"" p. 21.

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