Francisco Varo's grammar of the mandarin language, 1703 : an English translation of 'Arte de la lengua Mandarina' / [Edited by] W. South Coblin, Joseph A. Levi ; with an introduction by Sandra Breitenbach.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xlv-liii) and index.

Reproduction of Spanish original printed in Canton (Guangzhou 廣州) in 1703 with English translation on facing pages; English text has Chinese characters added to romanized text.
Includes reproduction and translation of Confessionarium of Basilio de Glemona.
Chinese character index arranged by modern pinyin with Varo's transcription and original character.
Note: De Glemona's name unauthorized, but OCLC records follow: Basilio da Gemona, 1648-1704. Brevis methodvs confessionis institvendae.

FRANCISCO VARO'S GRAMMAR OF THE MANDARIN LANGUAGE (1703): AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF 'ARTE DE LA LENGUA MANDARINA'; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Table of contents; EDITOR'S FOREWORD; 1. Background to the text; 2. Biographical data; 3. Text history and format of the Arte de la Lengua Mandarina; 4. Grammatical framework and transcriptional conventions in the text; 5. Structure and conventions of the translation; REFERENCES; INTRODUCTION: THE BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND GRAMMATICAL CONTEXT OF FRANCISCO VARO'S ARTE DE LA LENGUA MANDARINA (CANTON, 1703).

1. Introductory remarks; 2. Francisco Varo's Arte de la lengua Mandarina (Canton, 1703); 3. Biographical notes on Francisco Varo; 4. Varo's writings; 5. Grammatical studies initiated by the Dominican missionaries; 6. Greek and Latin linguistic traditions found in Varo; 7. The notion of ars grammaticae in the 17th and 18th centuries in connection with Varo's Arte de la lengua Mandarína; 8. Nebrija's influence on Varo's grammar; 9. Missionary grammars as models for Varo's grammar; 10. The influence of Varo'sArte on subsequent grammatical studies; 11. Concluding remarks; REFERENCES.

Abbreviations used in the Introduction. FRONTISPIECE; PROLOGUE; The First Chapter: A Few Monitions; The First Monition; The Second Monition; The Third Monition; The Fourth Monition; The Fifth Monition; The Second Chapter: On the Tones of this Language; Paragraph 1 : On the Simple Tones; The Second Paragraph: On the Guttural Tones; The Third Paragraph: On the Tones with Dot; The Fourth Paragraph: On the Guttural Tones with Dot; The Fifth Paragraph: On Some Other Ways of Pronouncing Certain Words; The Third Chapter: On the Declension of the Noun and the Pronoun; Declension of the Noun.

Declension of the Basic Pronouns; Declension of the Pronominal Derivatives; The Second Paragraph: Explanation of the Cases; Paragraph 3. On the Plural; Chapter 4: On the Substantive, Adjectival, Comparative, and Superlative Nominais; The First Paragraph: On the Substantives; The Second Paragraph: On the Adjectives; The Third Paragraph: On the Comparatives; Chapter V: On the Abstract Verbal Nouns, Diminutives, Frequentatives, Occupations, and Genders; The First Paragraph: On Verbals and Abstracts; The Second Paragraph: On the Diminutives; The Third Paragraph: On the Frequentatives.

The Fourth Paragraph: On the Names of Occupations; The Fifth Paragraph: On the Genders; Chapter VI: On The Pronoun; The First Paragraph: On the Basic and Derivative Pronouns; The Second paragraph. On the Demonstratives; The Third Paragraph: On the Relatives; The Fourth Paragraph: On the Reciprocals; Chapter VII: On the Interjection, Conjunction, Negation, Interrogative, and Conditional; The First Paragraph: On the Interjection and Conjunction; The Second Paragraph: On Negation; The Third Paragraph: On the Interrogative; The Fourth Paragraph: On the Conditional.

Chapter VIII: On the Verb and its Conjugations.

"Francisco Varo's Arte de la Lengua Mandarina, completed ca. 1680, is the earliest published grammar of any spoken form of Chinese and the fullest known description of the standard language of the seventeenth century. It establishes beyond doubt that this "Language of the Mandarins" was not Pekingese or Peking-based but had instead a Jiang-Huai or Nankingese-like phonology. It also provides important information about the nature and formation of pre-modern standard forms of Chinese and will lead to revisions of currently held views on Chinese koines and their relationship with regional speech forms and the received vernacular literature. Finally, it provides a wealth of information on stylistic speech levels, honorific usage, and social customs of the elite during the early Qing period. The book provides a full translation of the 1703 text of the Arte, an extensive introduction to the life and work of Varo, an index of Chinese characters inserted into the translation, and an index of linguistic terms and concepts. It should be of interest to a diverse readership of Chinese historical, comparative, and descriptive linguists, students of Qing history and literature, historiographers of linguistics, and specialists in early Western religious and cultural contact with China."

Local access dig.pdf. [Coblin-Varo's Grammar (1703).pdf]

Note on name: Basilio da Gemona (following LC); Basilio Brollo de Glemona (following Coblin). LC Authority record note: (The Franciscan Basilio Brollo was the author of the first comprehensive Chinese-Latin dictionary, which he composed in Nanking in 1694 and in 1699; At the beginning of the 19th century the French government decided to publish a dictionary and in 1808 entrusted this task to C.L. Joseph de Guignes (1759-1845), former consul of France in Catnon. Using the manuscript copy of Brollo's dictionary then in the Vatican Library, in 1813 de Guignes published the dictionary bearing his name, not that of Brollo, as the author)

Online at Internet Archive.
See Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.
“….probably written some time between 1651 and 1652….. printed and attached to 1696 edition of Mélchisedec Thévenot’s Relations des divers voyages curieux”--Source: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

Kuoyü primer : Progressive studies in the Chinese national language = Ying-Hua hebi 英華合璧 / by R. H. Mathews.
Title in Chinese characters on t.p.
"The series of progressive studies in the Chinese national language or Kuoyü, is a successor to the well-known Mandarin primer by F.W. Baller, which is now out of print. The general arrangement follows that of its predecessor."—Pref.
Title: Progressive studies in the Chinese national language.
Title also in Chinese: Ying-Hua hebi 英華合璧.

See also these online texts:
Silsby, Complete Shanghai syllabary.
Edkins, Grammar of colloquial Chinese-Shanghai dialect.
Syllabary of the Shanghai vernacular.
McIntosh, Useful phrases in the Shanghai dialect.
An English-Chinese vocabulary of the Shanghai dialect.

The Notitia linguae sinicae of Premare / Translated into English by J. G. Bridgman.
Xerox of Yale photocopy.
Changes to the Chinese text (including Cantonese pronounciations) change the function of this volume into a language learning tool rather than the linguistic analysis originally written by Premare. Cf. Prof. Paul A. Rule, Dr. Yin Wenjuan.

See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)

Notitia linguæ sinicæ / Auctore Josepho-Henrico Prémare, S.J.
Index by J. P. A. Remusat.
Running title: Linguae Sinicae notitia.

See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)

"Through the comparative analysis of the extant copies in both manuscript and printed form, and at the same time trying to separate the contribution to the original work given by other scholars who possessed it, the present study aims at reconstructing the evolution course of Martini's grammar from the older Grammatica Sinica to the refined and annotated copy of the Grammatica Linguae Sinensis. This last version is included into this study in annotated transcript and English translation"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290).

Local access dig.pdf. [Paternico-Martini Grammatica.pdf]

Contents: v. 1. Yanjiu Zhongguo wenxue de xin tujing 硏究中國文學的新途徑 / Zheng Zhenduo zhu 鄭振鐸著 -- v. 2. Wei-Jin shi yanjiu 魏晉詩硏究, Songshi zhi paibie 宋詩之派別 / Chen Yanjie zhu 陳延傑著 -- v. 3. Zhongguoshi yu Zhongguohua 中國詩與中國畫 / Qian Zhongshu zhu 錢鍾書著 -- v. 4. Huarui furen gongci kaozheng 花蕊夫人宮詞考證 / Pu Jiangqing zhu 浦江青著 -- v. 5. Zhongguo xiqu de xuanben 中國戲曲的選本 / Zheng Zhenduo zhu 鄭振鐸著 -- v. 6. Zhongguo xiaoshuo gailun 中國小說概論 / Yangu Wen (Shionoya On) 鹽谷温著 -- v. 7. Lun Zhongguo wenxue zhong de yinjie wenti 論中國文學中的音節問題 / Guo Shaoyu zhu 郭紹虞著 -- v. 8. Cong zhuyu binyu de fenbie tan guoyu juzi de fenxi 從主語賓語的分別談國語句子的分析 / Lü Shuxiang zhu 呂叔湘著.