Nouvelle relation de la Chine contenant la description des particularités les plus considérables de ce grand empire

Bibliographic Data

Year1688
Translator(s)/ Commentators(s)De Magalhães, Gabriel
Bernou, Claude
Book TypePrint, manuscript
Language(s)French (FR, FRE)
Portuguese (PT, POR)
Chinese TextCharacters and transliteration
Place Of TranslationParis
Place Of PublicationParis
Publisher's ImprintChez Claude Barbin le second perron de la Sainte Chappelle
SummaryFirst paragraph of the Great Learning. Possibly the only surviving extract from de Magalmaens’ lost “commentaire sur les livres de Confucius: le tout à l’usage des nouveaux arrivés” (Pfister p. 155 (88)). It includes: Introduction (p. 102); First paragraph of the Great Learning (p. 103); Commentaire & explication du Texte (p. 103-107).

Sources

Classical Source(s)Great Learning (大学)

Copies

Later EditionsGabriel de Magalhães, A New History of China Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire, John Ogilby, trans. (London, 1688).

1688 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter 1)

Title1688 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter 1)
Start Page102
End Page107
Translation Of >Great Learning (大学) (Chapter 1)