Sapienta Sinica

Year	1662
Translator(s)/ Commentators(s)	Intorcetta, Prospero
	Costa, Inacio da
	Couplet, Philippe
	Herdtricht, Christian Wolfgang
	Rougemont, François de
	Canevari, Pietro
	Gouvea, António de
	Brancati, Francesco
Book Type	Woodblock print
Language(s)	Latin
Chinese Text	Characters and transliteration
Place Of Translation	Jianchang
Summary	Sapientia Sinica, including the two-page biography of Confucius, the 14-page translation of the Great Learning and of the first five parts of the Analects, translated by da Costa, and edited by Intorcetta. It includes a biography of Confucius: “Ad Lectorem, includes Vita Confucj Principis Sapientiae Sinica” [un-numbered folios]; Revised by Pietro Canevari, Antonio de Gouvea, Francesco Brancati, imprimatur by Jaques Le Faure (vice-principal). It includes a biography of Confucius, a complete translation of the Great Learning and a translation of the first part of the Analects [10 chapters]. According to Chan “In folio 2r of Chung-yung (Jap-Sin I, 10)[四书集注, possibly owned by Brancati] there was an envelope which was addressed to Intorcetta: “Ao Pe Prospero [I]ntorxeta da Com. de Jesu” It is very likely that da Costa and Intorcetta made their translation from this edition of the Ssu-shu chi-chu, which according to the “Ad lectorem” in Jap-Sin III, 3a [郭纳爵(da Costa), 文四书直解，卷之一，大学(Cf. JS III, 3.2- 3).] was published in Nanking”.

Classical Source(s)	Great Learning (大学)
	Analects (论语)

Location(s) Of Copies ( M S)	located @ Biblioteca Centrale della Regione siciliana. Call number: RARI 1007
	located @ Biblioteca Trivulziana. Call number: Coll. Triv. B. 752/9
	located @ Biblioteca Comunale di Palermo. Call number: XVI H 47
	located @ Biblioteèque Nationale de France. Call number: Chinois 9335-9336; Anc. N.F. chinois 505 [incomplete, 大学only]
	located @ New York Public Library. Call number: Rare Book Division *KB+1662
	located @ British Library. Call number: C.24.b.2
	located @ Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei (Shanghai Library). Call number: M. 42-008855
	located @ Archivum Romanun Societatis Iesu (ARSI). Call number: Jap. Sin. III, 3
	located @ Archivum Romanun Societatis Iesu (ARSI). Call number: Jap. Sin. III, 3a
	located @ Biblioteèque Nationale de France. Call number: Chinois, 9337
	located @ Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova. Call number: RARI, I.VII.3
Later Editions	Paolo Boeonio-Brocchieri, “Sapientia Sinica”, in Confucio e il Cristianesimo, 2 vols (Turin: Tipografia Vincenzo Bona, 1972–1973), 1:1–49.

Digitisations
U R Ls	http://docbcrs.bibliotecaregionalepalermo.it/rari_1007.pdf

Title	1662 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter 1)
Translation Of >	Analects (论语) (Chapter 1)

Title	1662 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter 10)
Translation Of >	Analects (论语) (Chapter 10)

Title	1662 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter 2)
Translation Of >	Analects (论语) (Chapter 2)

Title	1662 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter 3)
Translation Of >	Analects (论语) (Chapter 3)

Title	1662 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter 4)
Translation Of >	Analects (论语) (Chapter 4)