Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, sive Scientia Sinensis latine exposita studio et opera Prosperi Intorcetta, Christiani Hedtrich, Francisci Rougemont, Philippi Couplet

Bibliographic Data

Year1687
Translator(s)/Commentators(s)Intorcetta, Prospero
Herdtricht, Christian Wolfgang
Rougemont, François
Couplet, Philippe
Place of translationParis -- Administrative.City
Language(s)Latin
Book TypePrint, manuscript
Place of First PublicationParis -- Administrative.City
Publisher's ImprintApud Danielem Horthemels, via Jacobaea sub Maecenate
Chinese textFew characters and transliterations in MS, none in printed book

Sources

Classical Source(s)Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
Great Learning (大学)
Analects (论语)

Bibliography

Bibliography


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CataloguesIn Pfister, Louis (1932-1934). Notices biographiques et bibliographiques sur les Jésuites de l'ancienne Mission de Chine: 1552-1773, Imprimerie de la mission Catholique, Shanghai:

114. Le P. Philippe Couplet, 12. pp. 311-312
120. Le P. Prosper Intorcetta, pp. 326-328.
Summary412 pages plus illustrations, including the translation in Latin of three of the 4 Books (Great Learning, Mean, Analects) produced by Prospero Intorcetta and other missionaries, with the Proemialis Declaratio of Intorcetta expanded by Couplet (pp. ix-cxxiv), and also the Vita Confucii of Da Costa and Intorcetta (pp. cxvii-cxxiv), as well as other documents:
-Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. I (restart)- 20)
-Tabula Chronologica Trium Familiarum Imperialium Monarchiae Sinicae (pp. 1 (restart) -8)
-Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae Juxta ciclos annorum LX (pp. 21-104)
-Imperii sinarum et rerum in eo notabilium. Synopsis. (pp. 105-109).
The original manuscript with notes by Couplet is preserved by the BNF, MS Latin 6277, with the title Scientiae Sinicae libri tres.

1687 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter)

Title of sectionScientia Sinicae liber tertius
Start page1 (restart)
End page159
Translation of >Analects (论语) (Chapter)

1687 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)

Title of sectionScientia Sinicae liber secundus
Start page40
End page108
Translation of >Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)

1687 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter)

Title of sectionScientia Sinicae liber primus
Start page1
End page39
Translation of >Great Learning (大学) (Chapter)

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