On the Regional Origin of the Eighteenth-Century'Dictionarium Sinico-Latinum'

摘要

The Archives des Missions etrangeres de Paris hold a manuscript entitled "DictionariumSinico-Latinum" and catalogued as V. 1149-03 "Dictionnaire Chinois-Latin." The work isanonymous and undated but is written in a typically seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand.In an earlier study (Coblin 2007) we concluded that the text was composed during the reignof the Yongzheng 4ET emperor (r. 1722-1735) and was probably written by a Frenchman.However, we were unable to determine where the work originated. In the present paper weshall use linguistic evidence to throw light on the regional origin of the text.