Cursus litteraturae sinicae

Bibliographic Data

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Full TitleCursus litteraturae sinicae neo-missionariis accommodatus
Year1879
End Year (multi-year Work)1882
Translator(s)/ Commentators(s)Zottoli, Angelo
Book TypePrint
Language(s)Latin
Chinese TextCharacters and transliteration
Place Of PublicationShanghai
Publisher's ImprintChang-Hai ex typographia missionis catholicae in orphanotrophio Tou-Sè-Vé (Tou-Chan-Wan)
Physical Description

5 volumes:

  1. Volumen primum pro infima classe. Lingua familiaris (Volume one for the lowest class: The colloquial language). viii + 904 pp.  Published in 1879; reprinted by the same press in 1909 as a "Nova Editio" (Also translated into French by P.C. de Bussy, S.J., and published at T’ou-sè-wè in 1891.
  2. Volumen secundum pro inferiore classe: Studium classicorum (Volume two for the lower class: Study of the classics). vii + 655 pp. Published in 1879; reprinted in 1915 as a "Nova Editio"
  3. Volumen tertium pro media classe: Studium canonicorum (Volume three for the intermediate class: Study of canonical texts). xxiv + 768 pp. Published in 1880.
  4. Volumen quartum pro suprema classe: Stylus rhetoricus (Volume four for the highest class: Rhetorical style). xix + 820 pp. Published in 1880.
  5. Volumen quintum pro rhetorices classe: Pars oratoria et poetica (Volume five for the class in rhetoric: Section on oratory and poetry). xi + 840 pp. Published in 1882.
Later Editions/ Reprints

Angelo Zottoli, Volumen secundum pro inferiore classe: Studium classicorum, nova editio, 1915

Summary

Latin translations of the Confucian classics are found in volumes 2 and 3.

Sources

Classical Source(s)Great Learning (大学)
Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
Analects (论语)
Mencius (孟子)
Classic of Poetry (诗经)
Book of Documents (书经)
Book of Changes (易经)
Book of Rites (礼记)
Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)

Bibliography

Secondary Sources

Williams, Nicholas Morrow, 2015. "Angelo Zottoli's Cursus litteraturae sinicae as Propaedeutic to Chinese Classical Tradition", in Monumenta Serica, 63, 327-359.

Magna Scientia

TitleMagna Scientia
Volume2
Start Page142
End Page169
Translation Of >Great Learning (大学)
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Medii Aequabilitas

TitleMedii Aequabilitas
Volume2
Start Page170
End Page209
Translation Of >Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
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Dissertae Sententiae

TitleDissertae Sententiae
Volume2
Start Page210
End Page367
Translation Of >Analects (论语)
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Liber Mentsii

TitleLiber Mentsii
Volume2
Start Page368
End Page635
Translation Of >Mencius (孟子)
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Liber Carminum

TitleLiber Carminum
Volume3
Start Page1
End Page325
Translation Of >Classic of Poetry (诗经)
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Liber Annalium

TitleLiber Annalium
Volume3
Start Page327
End Page519
Translation Of >Book of Documents (书经)
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Mutationum Liber

TitleMutationum Liber
Volume3
Start Page520
End Page619
Translation Of >Book of Changes (易经)
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Rituum Memoriale

TitleRituum Memoriale
Volume3
Start Page620
End Page759
Translation Of >Book of Rites (礼记)
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Ver et Autumnus

TitleVer et Autumnus
Volume3
Start Page760
End Page767
Translation Of >Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
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