JapSin II, 57.1-2
Feilu huida 斐祿彙答.
By Gao Yizhi 高一志 (Alfonso Vagnone).
Two juan, bamboo paper, each with a wrapper. Both juan A and juan B have double covers. No date or place of publication.

The cover of juan A bears a Latin inscription: “Quaesita et responsa | circa varias res | physicas | a p. Alph. Vagnoni | S.J.” Inside the cover the Chinese title is given and a Latin title: “De Philosophia.” The outer cover of juan B bears a Latin inscription: “De passionibus, cibis, | morbis, etc | a p. Alph Vagnoni | S.J.”

Juan A is divided into five parts: (1) celestial phenomena 天象類; (2) wind and rain 風雨類; (3) the fire element 火行類; (4) the water element 水行類; and (5) the human body 身體類.
Juan B is divided into seven parts: (1) human dispositions 性情類; (2) sound 聲音類; (3) alimentation 飲食類; (4) diseases 疾病類; (5) physical phenomena 物理類; (6) the animal kingdom 動物類; and (7) the vegetable kingdom 植物類.

For the collator Chen Yujie, see JWC 1:247–252, and for the polisher of the Chinese text Bi Gongchen, see ECCP 2:621–622: “Pi Kung ch’ên obtained from Niccolò Longobardi . . . another draft manuscript, entitled 斐錄答彙 Feilu dahui [sic] (Answers to Questions on Natural Philosophy), two juan, which had been originally translated into unpolished Chinese by Alphonse Vagnone . . . This work, too, Bi put into suitable form. It will be noticed that the first two words of the title represent phonetically the first two syllables of the word ‘philosophy’. In his preface to the work, written in 1635, Bi gives the full latinized form as Feilusuogeiya 斐錄所費亞. The work was printed in 1636, and copies are preserved in various libraries” (p. 622).

Cf. Pfister, p. 94, no. 14; Feng 1938, p. 110; Hsü 1949, p. 359; Courant 3394; Couplet, p. 12.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 361-362.

"Explanation (in 68 sections: 25+43) of the phenomena below the lunar sphere on the basis of the theory of the Four Elements, dealing with such subjects as ether, the sphericity of the earth, earthquakes, clouds, wind, rain, mountains and rivers. The first chapter deals with the general nature of the Four Elements, and the second with the phenomena engendered by the interaction of these elements.." -- Cf. full bibliographic and textual citation: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 55
Kongji gezhi 空際格致.
By Gao Yizhi 高一志 (Alfonso Vagnone).
Two juan Bamboo paper in two volumes with a paper case. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a label with the title written in ink and a Latin inscription: “De 4 Elementis | et meteoris etc. | a p. Alph. Vagnoni, S.J.”

Cf. Pfister, p. 94, no. 17; Feng 1938, p. 110, no. 17; Hsü 1949, p. 472; SKTY 3:2632; Courant 4916; Couplet, p. 12.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 359-360.

刻本. - 框19,5 X 13,5公分, 無直格,9行20字, 四周雙邊, 版心上鐫書名. - 封面鐫"思及艾先生著萬物真原穗城大原堂重榟,耶穌會後學艾儒略述,同會傅氾際, 龍華民, 費樂德仝訂, 溫陵張賡較梓". - 卷端題"泰西耶穌會士艾儒略述". - 前有艾儒略"萬物真原小引". -.

N.B. The Jap-Sin editions listed below were printed in Hangzhou, while the BSB digital edition was published in Guangzhou. Both editions appear similar.

JapSin I, 71
Three copies, two different editions: A+B and C.

Wan-wu chen-yüan [Wanwu zhenyuan] 萬物真原
By Ai Ju-lüeh (Ai Rulüe 艾儒略 (Giulio Aleni)).
One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in one volume. Re-engraved by the Catholic Church of Wu-lin 武林 (Wulin, Hangzhou). No date of publication (edition A+B).

The cover bears the title in Chinese with a Latin inscription: “P. Jul. Aleni | Vera origo omnium rerum.”

The middle of the title page bears the title with the name of the author on the right and the name of the publisher on the left. The verso of this folio gives the name of the author together with that of the censors: Fu Fan-chi 傅汎際（Fu Fanji, Francisco Furtado）, Lung Hua-min 龍華民 (Long Huamin, Niccolò Longobardo), and Fei Lo-te 費樂德 (Fei Lede, Rui de Figueiredo). Chang Keng (Zhang Geng 張賡) of Wen-ling 温陵 (Wenling, Fujian) was the proofreader and perhaps also the one who polished the Chinese style.
The preface of the author consists of two and one-half folios, the table of contents of one folio and the main text of twenty-five and one-half folios. The title is given in the upper middle of each folio and the number of each folio below.
The Archive possesses three copies: two of them (A and B) are of the same edition. Both have wide margins. The third copy (C) has a different type of print. Even the text is sometimes different, e.g., the characters 遠西 are given at the end of the last folio of the A and B edition, while C has 泰西. The same is true in folio 1 column 2. Although the publisher of the two editions is known (the Catholic church of Hangzhou), the date of the publications is not. According to Pfister the first edition was published in Hangzhou, but the date is not certain.
The book is written in the form of a discussion and occasionally in the form of a dialogue. Aleni himself was well versed in Chinese, and with the help of Zhang Geng he made a very readable book.

Cf. Pfister, p. 132; Hsü 1949, p. 173; BR, p. XXXIII; Couplet, p. 16; Courant 6889–6893 (6890 II and VII: two different Wulin [Hangzhou] editions without date); Sommervogel, vol. I, col. 158.

Local access dig.pdf. [Aleni-Wanwu zhenyuan.pdf]