| Author | Li Rui 李銳 |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Article (in Periodical) |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | P119.32.C6 L5 2025 |
| Description | 26 p. |
| Note | "The connection between the 'Thesaurus rarissimus' (Marsh 111) and the 'Dictionnaire Chinois & François' (1670), the first printed Chinese dictionary in Europe" / Li Rui 李銳 Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 Also available through Boston College Libraries Abstract: The Dictionnaire Chinois & François appended to La Chine illustrée (1670) was the first printed Chinese-European dictionary, but its authorship and sources remain unknown. This article investigates this printed Chinese-French dictionary and argues that an anonymous manuscript dictionary (Ms Marsh 111) kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford is related to it. The connection between the printed dictionary and Marsh 111 enables us to identify more entries in Dictionnaire Chinois & François with incorrect romanization and translations. |
| Author | Godwin, Joscelyn |
| Place | London |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Book |
| Shelf | Stacks |
| Call Number | CT1098.K46 G62 1979b |
| Description | 96 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
| Note | Athanasius Kircher : a Renaissance man and the quest for lost knowledge / [by] Joscelyn Godwin. Bibliography: p. 94-96. |
| ISBN | 0500810222 |
| LCCN | 80-492632 |
| Author | Billings, Timothy James, 1963- |
| Place | Berkeley |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Extract (PDF) |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | BX154.C4 B566 2004d |
| Description | dig.pdf [42 p. : ill.] |
| Note | Jesuit Fish in Chinese Nets: Athanasius Kircher and the Translation of the Nestorian Tablet / Timothy Billings. Extract. Originally published in: Representations, No. 87 (Summer, 2004), pp. 1-42. Local access dig.pdf. [Billings-Kircher Nestorian Tablet.pdf] Online (Subscription) at JSTOR. ABSTRACT: "This essay offers a 'sinographic' reading of Athanasius Kircher's bilingual critical edition of a famous Tang dynasty monument (discovered in 1625) about Nestorian Christians, which frames the material in China Illustrata (1667). The author argues that Kircher's mode of translation is a doctrinal polemic that attempts to reconstruct an imaginary originary text from the Chinese inscription in order to contain unorthodox meanings that interfere with the Jesuit identity that is positively projected onto the stone."--JSTOR note. |
| Author | Zwartjes, Otto |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Article (in Periodical) |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | P119.32.C6 Z837 2025 |
| Description | 15 p. |
| Note | "The history of Chinese linguistics in East and West" / Otto Zwartjes Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 Also available through Boston College Libraries Introduction: This issue presents recent developments and new insights in research concerning relatively well-known sources from the history of Chinese (applied) linguistics and Chinese lexicography, such as Kangxi zidian, 康熙字典 [‘Kangxi Dictionary’] Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), James Summers (1828–1891) and Wilhelm Lobscheid (1822–1893). Of particular significance are contributions that introduce newly discovered sources or focus on materials that, — while referenced in existing surveys and catalogues —, have surprisingly received little scholarly attention to date |
