" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5
N.B.: This edition is a reduced format copy of the 1984 Taiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館 edition, reproduced from the collection in possession of the Guoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院: Yingyin Wenyuan Ge Siku quanshu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 ; 594

Added titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰. Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰. Daoyi zhilue 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰. Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰. Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰. Dong Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Xie zhuan 張燮撰. Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulue zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰. Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰. Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人. Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰. Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰. Haiguo Wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.
”據墨海金壺及守山閣叢書本影印”
民國25 [1936].
Dig. ed. local access only [Aleni-ZhifangWaijiCSJC.pdf]

"....partly based on Giovanni Antonio Magini, ’Moderne tavole di geografia, dalle quali, secondo, che hoggidi si trova l’universo, vedesi la faccia del mondo, tutte le sue parti, provincie, regioni, e ciascuni suoi imperij, et altri dominij, con espositioni ampissime dell’eccellentiss., Sig. Gio. Ant. Magini padovano, lettore delle matematiche nel pubblico sutdio di Bologna. Tradotte dal R. D. Leonardo Cernoti vinitiano canonico di S. Salvadore’, Venezia, 1598."--Full textual citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

" ... best known of [his] works is the World Atlas compiled in collaboration with Yang Tingyun, based on the map of Matteo Ricci and some manuscript notes by Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis. This compilation seems to have been undertaken at the same time as a terrestrial globe made in 1623 by Nicolò Longobardi and Manuel Dias, now in the British Museum ... the Atlas was engraved in 1623 in Hangzhou under the title Zhifang waiji (5 juan) and later (ca. 1640) 6 juan. First ed. included in the Tianxue chuhan, copied into the eighteenth-century Imperial Library (present ed.)...." Cf. Dictionary of Ming Biography, pp. 4-5.

Following source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 299-301

JapSin II, 19
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Six juan. Bamboo paper, two ce bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 18 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with only three characters left: 方外紀 ; the rest of the title (奉) 旨繙繹職 can still be traced.

The Zhifang waiji is a concise geography of the world, the first of this kind written in Chinese. After Ricci had presented the map of the world, Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis were instructed by imperial order to compose a book which should give an explanation of Ricci’s map. Pantoja died in 1618 and his uncompleted task was taken up by Aleni. A great deal of matter was added to it and the book (five juan, cf. Jap-Sin II, 20.) was published in 1623 under Aleni’s name. The style of the book was polished by Yang Tingyun with whose help it was published in Hangzhou in 1623. A few years later (ca. 1626) another edition in six juan was published in Fujian, of which Jap-Sin II, 19 must be a copy.
In this book the globe is divided into the five continents of Asia, Europe, Libya (Africa), America and Magellanica, under which last name was included an extensive tract of land supposed to extend from close to South America to several degrees beyond the south pole. The description of Europe was given most of the attention (twenty-nine folios).
The first edition (1623) of the Zhifang waiji was included in the seventeenth-century Tianxue chuhan 天學初函, edited by Li Zhizao. It was later copied into the eighteenth century Imperial Library (Siku quanshu 四庫全書). It was reprinted in no fewer than three nineteenth-century encyclopedias: Mohai jinhu 墨海金壺, Shoushange congshu 守山閣叢書 and Waifan yudi congshu 外蕃輿地叢書, and in the Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編, published in the 1930’s. A new edition of the Zhifang waiji was published by the Hunan renmin chubanshe 湖南人民出版社 in 1981. It is included in the Cheng cha riji 乘差日記.

Cf. Pfister, p. 135, no. 24; Hsü 1949, pp. 313–317; Feng 1938, p. 160; Couplet, p. 17; BR, p. XXXIII; K. Enoki, “The geography of central Asia as described in Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Prof S. Wada on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 211; id., “Editions of the Chih-fang wai-chi” (in Japanese) in Festschrift Honoring Dr. H. Iwai on his 70th Birthday (1963), p. 136; Wylie, p. 58; DMB 1:5–6; Albert Chan, “The scientific writings of Giulio Aleni,” in: T. Lippiello & R. Malek (eds.), “Scholar from the West”: Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582–1649) and the Dialogue Between China and Christianity (Monumenta Serica monograph series, XLII), Nettetal, 1997, pp. 455–478.

JapSin II, 20
Zhifang waiji 職方外紀
By Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni).
Five juan. Bamboo paper in two ce, bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication. 16.8 x 27.5 cm.

The cover bears a label with the title of the book and a Latin inscription: “P. Julii Alenis | Cosmographia | Pars 1^a and 2^a.”

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