Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex

Bibliographic Data

Thumbnail Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex
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.
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 .

Sources

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

Bibliography

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.
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