Cursus litteraturae sinicae

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Full title: Cursus litteraturae sinicae neo-missionariis accommodatus
Year: 1879
End year (multi-year work): 1882
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Zottoli, Angelo
Book type: Print
Language(s): Latin
Chinese text: Characters and transliteration
Place of publication: Shanghai
Publisher's imprint: Chang-Hai ex typographia missionis catholicae in orphanotrophio Tou-Sè-Vé (Tou-Chan-Wan)
physicalDescription: 5 volumes:

Volumen primum pro infima classe. Lingua familiaris (Volume one for the lowest class: The colloquial language). viii + 904 pp. Published in 1879; reprinted by the same press in 1909 as a "Nova Editio" (Also translated into French by P.C. de Bussy, S.J., and published at T’ou-sè-wè in 1891.

Volumen secundum pro inferiore classe: Studium classicorum (Volume two for the lower class: Study of the classics). vii + 655 pp. Published in 1879; reprinted in 1915 as a "Nova Editio"

Volumen tertium pro media classe: Studium canonicorum (Volume three for the intermediate class: Study of canonical texts). xxiv + 768 pp. Published in 1880.

Volumen quartum pro suprema classe: Stylus rhetoricus (Volume four for the highest class: Rhetorical style). xix + 820 pp. Published in 1880.

Volumen quintum pro rhetorices classe: Pars oratoria et poetica (Volume five for the class in rhetoric: Section on oratory and poetry). xi + 840 pp. Published in 1882.
Later Editions/Reprints: Angelo Zottoli, Volumen secundum pro inferiore classe: Studium classicorum, nova editio, 1915
Classical source(s): Great Learning (大学); Doctrine of the Mean (中庸); Analects (论语); Mencius (孟子); Classic of Poetry (诗经); Book of Documents (书经); Book of Changes (易经); Book of Rites (礼记); Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
Sections: Magna Scientia; Medii Aequabilitas; Dissertae Sententiae; Liber Mentsii; Liber Carminum; Liber Annalium; Mutationum Liber; Rituum Memoriale; Ver et Autumnus
Summary: Latin translations of the Confucian classics are found in volumes 2 and 3.
URLs: Google Books (Volume 2); Google Books (Volume 3)
Secondary Sources: Williams, Nicholas Morrow, 2015. "Angelo Zottoli's Cursus litteraturae sinicae as Propaedeutic to Chinese Classical Tradition", in Monumenta Serica, 63, 327-359.

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