Sinarum scientia politico-moralis

Bibliographic Data

Year1667
Translator(s)/ Commentators(s)Intorcetta, Prospero
Book TypeWoodblock print
Language(s)Latin
Chinese TextCharacters and transliteration
Place Of TranslationGoa
Canton
SummaryA 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)

Copies

Location(s) Of Copies ( M S)located @ Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo. Call number: XVI H 47
located @ Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV). Call number: Rossiana 3482 [old shelfmark XV, 422]
located @ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Call number: Sin 54-C ALT SIN
located @ Biblioteèque Nationale de France. Call number: Chinois, 9337
located @ Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Call number: EC66.3 /7438
located @ Bibliothèeque Municipal de Lione. Call number: SJ ZSI 00875
located @ Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. Call number: MS 3274
located @ Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze. Call number: Rari 79, Palat. 3.1.7.7.
located @ Archivum Romanun Societatis Iesu (ARSI). Call number: ARSI Jap. Sin III 3b-3c
located @ Biblioteca della Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo. Call number: Rari-VII
located @ Universiteitsbibliotheek di Leiden. Call number: SINOL.VGK 918.1
located @ Archivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (ANTT). Call number: Armario Jesuitico, liv. 11, f. 89 a 126
Later EditionsReprinted without the Chinese text in L. Magalotti, Notizie Varie dell'Imperio della China, In Firenze, da Giuseppe Manni, 1697: Confucii vita (p. 123), Sinarum Scientia (p. 149).
Adam Franciscus Kollarius, Analecta Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobnesia, Vindobonae, Typis et Sumptibus Ioannis Thomae Trattner, aulea et inclytorum inferioris Austriae ordinum typogr., anno MCCLXI. Pp. 1211-1256: “Sinarum scientia politico-moralis, secundum authenticum exemplar Sinico-Latinum, a R. P. Prospero Intorcetta Siculo, Societatis Jesu".

1667 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)

Title1667 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)
Translation Of >Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)