Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

Bibliographic Data

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Short Title 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 Preparation Goa
Canton
Archive Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo
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XVI H 47
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV)
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Rossiana 3482 [old shelfmark XV, 422]
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
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Sin 54-C ALT SIN
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
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Chinois, 9337
Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
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EC66.3 /7438
Bibliothèque Municipal de Lione
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SJ ZSI 00875
Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana
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MS 3274
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze
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Rari 79, Palat. 3.1.7.7.
Biblioteca della Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo
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Rari-VII
Leiden University Libraries
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SINOL.VGK 918.1
Archivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (ANTT)
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Armario Jesuitico, liv. 11, f. 89 a 126
Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI)
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Jap. Sin III 3b-3c
Facsimiles

Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. Sinarum scientia politico-moralis, Palermo, Regione siciliana, 2010.

Later Editions/Reprints Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia
Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Casesarea Vindobonensi
Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China
Relations de divers voyages curieux
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.

Sources

Classical Source(s) Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)

Bibliography

Secondary Sources

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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