| Summary | "Memcius ex sinico in latinum idioma traductus a P. Francisco Noel Societatis Iesu missionario
Sinensi, Nancham in China, 1700. Manuscript, 424 pages (20.7 x 14.7cm). Chinese text and Latin translation (paraphrase with often additional information) of the book of Mencius (Mengzi 孟子). The layout is the same as in the preceding text (19.930): verso the Chinese text [...], and on the recto of the next folio the Latin translation [...]. As to MS 19.930 (Zhongyong) and 19.931 (Mencius), note that a this manuscript of Noel's translations of the Four Books, that of the Analects (Lunyu 论语), is kept in the National Library at St. Petersburg: Liber sententiarum ex sinico in latinum idioma traductus a P. Francisco Noël Societatis Jesu Missionario Sinensi, Nancham in China 1700. According to a note on the title-page, it had been acquired from a private library in Brussels and sent to Pulawy (Poland) in late 1810." Ad Dudink, Chinese Books and Documents (pre-1900) in the Royal Library of Belgium at Brussels (Brussels: Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 2006), p. 42 (19:301). |
