Liber in quo et signa coelestia et mappa Sinarum Imperij, et quaedam figurae monstruosae tum hominum tum animalium exprimuntur . Sinice, in 4°, X.(7.)18

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Title
Liber in quo et signa coelestia et mappa Sinarum Imperij, et quaedam figurae monstruosae tum hominum tum animalium exprimuntur . Sinice, in 4°, X.(7.)18
(EN) Pursuing knowledge through personal investigation without relying on others
(Latin) Liber in quo et signa coelestia et mappa Sinarum Imperij, et quaedam figurae monstruosae tum hominum tum animalium exprimuntur
(Chinese translitteration) Gewu bu qiu ren
(CN) 格物不求人
Creator
Wu Jirang 吴 季让 (Wu Yanling Jirang 吴延陵 季让)
Subject
Chinese Encyclopedia
Abstract
This work is an encyclopaedia of the riyong leishu 日用類書 (daily-use encyclopaedia) genre, structured as a compilation of heterogeneous texts. It encompasses a wide range of subjects—such as geography, astronomy, astrology, and medicine—highlighting its practical orientation and its role in disseminating general knowledge to a broad, non-specialist audience
Publisher
Tanyang 潭陽, Fujian. China. Engraved edition of Zhanyiting from Tanyang 潭陽詹怡廷繡梓. Yumingtang Publishing House 玉茗堂
Date
s.d.
Type
Book
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Format
Printed text, 229 pages
Identifier
RARI.I.VII.15
Source
Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
Language
Chinese
Relation
Magnani, Arianna (2024). “A synthesis of educational chanted rules. The chapter Xuntong men 訓童門 in riyong leishu 日用類書”, Kervan - International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 28(1), pp. 45-66. ISSN 1825-263X (online open access).
Magnani, Arianna (2022). “Searching for Sirenes in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Fantastic Taxonomies of Anthropomorphic Fish in Chinese Texts and Jesuit Sources”, Sulla Via del Catai, 26, pp. 87-105. ISSN 1970-344-9.
Magnani, A. (2020). Enciclopedismo cinese in Europa: percorsi transculturali del sapere tra Seicento e Settecento. Genova: De Ferrari. ISBN 9788855032629.
Magnani, Arianna (2019). Gewu bu qiu ren, un'enciclopedia popolare cinese nella biblioteca dei Gesuiti a Genova : un caso studio nella dinamica dei rapporti tra Europa e Cina in età barocca. Ca'Foscari University,Phd Thesis.
Magnani, Arianna (2016). "Tutto quello che bisogna sapere per non dover chiedere agli altri: lo sviluppo dell’embrione umano illustrato in un’Enciclopedia cinese” in "Anthropos & Iatria", anno XX-N°2-2016, pp.76-82.
Elman, Benjamin (2007). Collecting and Classifying : Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (Leishu), Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident Année 2007 H-S, pp. 131-157.
Wu, Huifang 吴蕙芳 (2003), Qingdai minjian shenghuo zhishi di zhangwo—Cong Wanbao yuanlong zazi dao Wanbao quanshu 清代民间生活知识的掌握: 从万宝元龙杂字到万宝全书 (The Acquisition of Everyday Knowledge among Common People in the Qing Dynasty: From the Wanbao yuanlong zazi to the Wanbao quanshu), Guoli Zhengzhi daxue lishi xuebao 国立政治大学历史学报 20, pp. 185–211.
Xia, Nanqiang 夏南强 (2001), Leishu tonglun: Lun leishu di xingzhi qiyuan fazhan yanbian he yingxiang 类书通论: 论类书的性质起源发展演变和影响 (General Discussion of Leishu: On Their Nature, Origins, Development, Evolution, and Influence), Wuhan: Huazhong shifan daxue 华中师范大学.
Sakade, Yoshinobu 阪出祥伸 (1999), “Mindai nichiyō ruisho ni tsuite” 明代日用類書 (On Ming-Dynasty Daily-Use Encyclopaedias), in Sakai, Tadao 酒井忠夫 (ed.), Chūgoku nichiyō ruisho shūsei 中国日用類書集成 (“Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Daily-Use Encyclopaedias”), Tokyo: Kyūko shoin 汲古書院.
Sakai, Tadao 酒井忠夫 (1991), Chūgoku nichiyō ruishoshi no kenkyū 中国日用類書史の研究 (A Study of the History of Chinese Daily-Use Encyclopaedias), Tokyo: Kokusho Kankōkai 国書刊行会.
Sakai Tadao 酒井忠夫, 1958. “Mindai no nichiyō ruisho to shomin kyōiku” 明代の日用類書と庶民教育 (Daily-use Encyclopaedias of the Ming Dynasty and Popular Education), in Kinsei Chūgoku kyōikushi kenkyū 近世中国教育史研究, ed. Hayashi Tomoharu 林友春 .Tokyo: Kokudosha.
Rights
Public Domain
Provenance
Stamp of the Royal University of Genoa (small format, 4 cm × 1.5 cm).
Description
(Physical description) Red leather binding, decorated with gilt floral motifs along the spine panel and board edges; both front and back boards feature marbled paper. Eighteenth-century binding.
The text shows signs of restoration.

(Size) 24,5x14; 1,5 (cm, height x width, thickness)
Has Version
Edition of Wanbao quanshu 萬寶全書 (Complete book of myriad treasures)
Xin ban zengbu tianxia bian yong wenlin miao jin wanbao quanshu 新板增補天下便用文林妙錦萬寶全書 (The marvelous, precious, newly edited and supplemented “Complete Book of Myriad Treasures” of literati for the convenient use of all) Harvard-Yenching Library Rare Book T 9299 7224. Public domain, from the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University.
Rights Holder
Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
Author of the Catalogation
Arianna Magnani
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