Atlante della Cina di Michele Ruggieri 羅明堅, S.J. (1543-1607)

"Born in Spinazzola in Puglia (Italy), Ruggieri entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-nine after holding official posts under Philip II, King of Naples. He was assigned to the Eastern missions and arrived in Goa on September 13, 1578. (Matteo Ricci was a fellow passenger). In July 1579 he arrived in Macau to implement the revolutionary missiological policy inaugurated by Alessandro Valignano 範禮安, S.J. (1538-1606). In 1583, after establishing friendly contacts with Chinese officials in Guangdong Province he was granted permission to build a church and residence at Zhaoqing 肇慶. In September of 1583 Ruggieri and Ricci took up residence there, establishing the first post-medieval Christian mission in China.
Like Ricci and other pioneers of the Jesuit China mission, Ruggieri was accomplished in many areas, and cartographic and linguistic skills were deemed particularly important. On Ruggieri's map (c. 1609) can be seen detailed information on terrain, cities, and waterways. Learning the Chinese language was not restricted to local dialects but also to learning guanhua 官話, the official language known in Western countries as Mandarin. Dictionaries and lexicons were created and the first semi-standard romanizations for Chinese characters were created (based on Portuguese letter values: see the Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary in this display). Published letters describing Chinese civilization sent by Ricci, Ruggieri, and others to Europe were highly popular and avidly studied by historians and philosophers."--Display placard text.

Another copy Gleeson Library (PC5335.C5 L4 1998)

Prefatory material in Portuguese, Chinese, and English; includes Facsimile of original: ARSI Japonica-Sinica I, 198, ff. 32r-169r.
Edition jointly published by: Biblioteca Nacional Portugal 葡萄牙國家圖書館 ; Instituto Português do Oriente (IPOR) 東方葡萄牙學會 ; Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History 利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所 (San Francisco).
Translation, revision, editorial: Natercia Fraga, Iva Flores, Wu Xiaoxin 吳小新, Magarida Duarte, Wang Zengyang 王增揚.
Includes tables of Chinese characters with IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and various Romanization systems (besides Ruggieri's and Ricci's) for regional dialects of the late Ming period.
Includes bibliographies: p. 69, 135, 211 Illustration: Inscription for the Church at Zhaoqing 為肇慶教堂的題字 / ARSI Jap.Sin. 9, II, 264r (sic)

"Collected in the late 16th century, this dictionary introduces for the very first time the romanization of the Chinese language spoken in the final years of the Ming period and constitutes a milestone in the development of Chinese studies"--back cover.
972-8013-57-4 (IPOR) 972-565-298-3 (BN) LC authority uses: Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa

See Jap-Sin I, 197 and Jap-Sin I, 198 entry in Chan catalog for manuscript description.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ricci-Dicionario.pdf]

Contents include: 關於理性與信仰關係問題的研究構想 / 張志剛. 中國基督宗教研究的現代處境 / 卓新平. 明清基督教與中國思想的駁難 / 李天綱. 中國天主教本地化的歷程 / 顧衛民. 明清之際天主教在長江三角洲的傳播 / 康志杰. 試論利瑪竇的漢化傾向 / 高智瑜, 林華. 羅明堅 : 西方漢學的奠基人 / 張西平. 福建基督教史的研究回顧與展望 / 林金水, 張先清.
Includes bibliographical references.