Li Madou shijie ditu yanjiu 利瑪竇世界地圖研究 / Huang Shijian, Gong Yingyan zhu 黃時鑒, 龔纓晏著.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes folding map of Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖 (51 x 100 cm.)
Includes place-name index: Kunyu wanguo quantu diming tongjian 坤輿全圖地名通檢 [Appendix 2, p. 183-209].
“Li Madou shijie ditu yanjiu wenxian mulu 利瑪竇世界地圖研究文獻目錄“ : p. [210]-218.
Title also in English on p. [4] of dustjacket: A Study of Ricci’s World Map.

In addition to a detailed textual study of Ricci’s Mappamondo, or Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖, this volume describes both Chinese and European antecedents upon which the Mappamondo was based, a history of editions, versions extant in different countries, and an analysis of the original prefaces with index of place-names. Also described are earlier Chinese maps (e.g. Zhang Huang 章潢, Tushu bian 圖書編) that were incorporated or consulted in the original, and congshu such as the Sancai tuhui 三才圖會 which included the Mappamondo or versions based on it. Also includes Western examples (in color) of maps by Ortelius, Mercator, Plancio, etc., which Ricci used to detail Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

利瑪竇世界地圖研究為﹕Zhejiang Sheng Zhexue shehui kexue guihua keti, Zhejiang daxue ... 浙江省哲學社會科學規劃課題, 浙江大學 ... [etc.]
本書並受到浙江大學”僑福建設基金” 的出版資助.
中國版本圖書館CIP數據核字(2004)第020884號.

Local access dig.pdf. [Huang Shijian-Ricci Maps.pdf (pdf excludes folding map)]

Pleasing the Emperor: Revisiting the Figured Chinese Manuscript of Matteo Ricci’s Maps / Cheng Fangyi.

Extract from: Journal of Jesuit studies 6 (2019) : 31-43
doi:10.1163/22141332-00601003

Abstract

Aside from John Day’s important survey of the figured manuscript copies of Matteo Ricci’s map, there as been little investigation of the reasons they were made, the sources of their content or how they circulated. Key to understanding these maps is the text Zhifang waiji [職方外紀] (1623) edited by Giulio Aleni and Yang Tingyun. This text was actually the work of Diego de Pantoja and Sabatino de Ursis in Beijing, composed on the orders of the Wanli emperor. At the same time, a figured manuscript copy of Ricci’s map was composed, which was copied by other scholars in Beijing and circulated at court. These efforts, however, were largely aimed at pleasing the Wanli Emperor rather than impressing the literati with the extent of Jesuit knowledge.

Ming dynasty – Matteo Ricci – world maps – cartographic politics – Kunyu wanguo quantu – Giulio Aleni – Yang Tingyun – Diego de Pantoja – Sabatino de Ursis – Wanli Emperor - descriptive geography - animals in art and cartography

Local access dig.pdf. [Cheng-Pleasing the Emperor.pdf]

Index Theologicus

Brill

ResearchGate

ABSTRACT: In 1986 the Kendall Whaling Museum (Sharon, Massachusetts) acquired a panel of a Chinese map as an example of the Chinese representation of the monstrous fish (whales) mentioned by Herman Melville in his assessment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century depictions of whales. Only later was the panel identified as a rare seventeenth-century variation of Matteo Ricci's world map of 1602.
In this paper, the museum's map is compared with other manuscript and printed maps by Matteo Ricci. Discussion centers on the origins of the manuscript copies of Ricci's 1602 map and their inter-relationships. A census of woodblock prints of Ricci's maps (1602, 1603, post- 1644) and of the Chinese manuscript copies is included.
KEYWORDS: World maps; Matteo Ricci,printed and manuscript maps; Jesuits and maps; China, seventeenth century maps.
Local access dig.pdf. [Day-Ricci World Map.pdf]