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Brief extract from the opening of the Great Learning, with a short commentary by Vincent. The transliteration of the first two paragraphs follows that by Intorcetta, with the exception of “c ̧”, which became “s” in Vincent.

Eenige voorname eygenschappen van de ware deugdt, voorzichtigheydt, wysheydt en Voknaecktheydt

China, seu humana institutio

Latin translation by Ruggieri

Los Cuatro Libros

Spanish translation by Michele Ruggieri

Bibliotheca selecta qua agitur de ratione studiorum (1593)

Publication of Michele Ruggieri’s Latin translation of almost the entire opening section of the Great Learning

Y-King, antiquissimus Sinarum liber quem ex latina interpretatione p. Regis aliorumque ex Soc. Jesu

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.

Translated into French by Abbé Pluquet, but without the preface and the notes. Volume 1 is a general introduction on Chinese philosophy: Observations sur la Philosophie morale et politique des Législateurs Chinois.

Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex

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 .

Philosophia sinica tribus tractatibus

This work, divided into three treatises, is properly not a translation of a classic but an anthology of Chinese classical passages and their neo-Confucian commentaries ordered to explain Chinese metaphysics (Treatise 1), ritual (Treatise 2) and ethics (Treatise 3) as compatible with Christian doctrine.

Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China

Relazione della China cavata da un ragionamento tenuto col Padre Giovanni Grueber della Compagnia di Gesù 1 Alcune Lettere latine del suddetto Padre toccanti l'istesse materie 81 Confucii Vita 123 Scientiae Sinicae inter Confucii libros secundus. Ad Lectorem 143 Scientiae Sinicae inter Confucii libros secundus. 149

Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Casesarea Vindobonensi

Reprint of Intorcetta's Sinarum Scientia, in volume VII, pages 349-366. Followed by Confucii Vita (pages 367-374)

Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia

Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

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.

Relations de divers voyages curieux

It includes a biography of Confucius in Latin and French: Confucii vita (partie 4, pp. 14-18), La vie de Confucius (partie 4, pp. 19-23). Each chapter of the book restart page numbering. The text was also printed as La science des Chinois, ou le livre de Cum-fu-çu, Chez André Cramoisy, rue de la vieille Bouclerie, au Sacrifice d’Abraham, 1673

Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)

412 pages plus illustrations, including the translation in Latin of three of the 4 Books (Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects) produced by Prospero Intorcetta and other missionaries, with the Proemialis Declaratio of Intorcetta expanded by Couplet (pp. ix-cxxiv), and also the Vita Confucii of da Costa and Intorcetta (pp. cxvii-cxxiv), as well as other documents: Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. I (restart)- 20) Tabula Chronologica Trium Familiarum Imperialium Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. 1 (restart) -8) Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae Juxta ciclos annorum LX (pp. 21-104) Imperii sinarum et rerum in eo notabilium. Synopsis. (pp. 105-109). The original manuscript with notes by Couplet is preserved in BNF, MS Latin 6277, with the title Scientiae Sinicae libri tres.

Sapientia Sinica

Sapientia Sinica contains a biography of Confucius, a translation of the Great Learning, and a translation of the first ten chapters of the Analects. It was revised by Pietro Canevari, António de Gouvea, and Francesco Brancati, with an imprimatur from Jaques Le Faure.

Compendium Doctrinae Christianae, folio 24r

Compendium Doctrinae Christianae (Marsh 456)

Heurnius' Compendium consists mostly of Christian texts, but also includes an incomplete translation of the Analects, and of the Xiao'er lun 小兒論. The text is based on the Jesuits' writings, and uses a common terminology, especially with regard to Christian texts.

Le Chou-King: Un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois (1851)

Rituale domesticum Sinensium ad litteram ex sinico latine versum cum notis

Translation of the fourth juan of Zhu Xi’s Jiali 家禮 on funerals (sangli 喪禮) and of the fifth juan on sacrifices (jili 祭禮) with translations of the commentary by Qiu Jun (1474), Wengong Jiali Yijie 文公家禮儀節

Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735)

Volume 2 contains summaries and extracts of the Five Classics ("Des King Chinois, ou des Livres Canoniques du premier Ordre", pp. 286-287) and the Four Books ("Des Livre Classiques ou Canoniques du second Ordre", pp. 319-384) based almost exclusively on Noël’s Latin translations. Volume 2 also contains "De la Litterature Chinoise (pp. 284-286)" and a life of Confucius “Vie de Cong fou tsee ou Confucius" (pp. 319-324).

Nouvelle relation de la Chine (1688)

Confucii Chi King sive Liber Carminum

La Morale de Confucius, philosophe de la Chine (1688)

Partial translation of the CSP by Jean de La Brune, or Abbé Simon Foucher, Amsterdam: Pierre Savouret éditeur, 1688. It includes an introduction on Chinese Philosophy: "De l’antiquité & de la Philosophie des chinois (pp. 1-21)".

四书 Les Quatre Livres

Including Chinese Commentary (based on Deng Lin 邓林, revised by Du Dingqi 杜定其 : 四书補注附考備旨), and double translation Latin-French, by Séraphin Couvreur, Xianxian.

Mémoires Concernant l’histoire, les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs, les Usages, etc. des Chinois, par les Missionaires de Pékin