China, seu humana institutio

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Short Title 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 Preparation Rome
Nola
Salerno
Archive Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (BNCR)
Shelfmark Fondo gesuitico n. 1185/3314
Summary Latin translation by Ruggieri
Related De animi cultu

Sources

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Classical Source(s) Great Learning (大学)
Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
Analects (论语)
Mencius (孟子)
Precious Mirror for Enlightening the Mind (明心宝鉴)

Bibliography

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Secondary Sources

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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