title: “Confessionario em Lingua Mandarina” by Fr. Francisco Varo: An Unknown Manuscript of the Renowned Dominican
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metadata.value: Kozha, Ksenia A.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:23:02Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T15:23:02Z
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metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Kozha K. A. “Confessionario em Lingua Mandarina” by Fr. Francisco Varo: An Unknown Manuscript of the Renowned Dominican. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 113–125.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37303
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metadata.value: The Oriental Department of the St Petersburg University’s library has a unique manuscript
  “Confessionario em Lingua Mandarina”, a handbook for confession, compiled by Dominican
  father Francisco Varo (1627-1687) for use in his (and his confrères) missionary work in earlier
  Qing China (sec. half of the 17th c.). The manuscript, seven folios altogether, bound into a dictionary
  (Dictionario Lusitanico Sinico Tartaro Historico Mathematico Latino for Congregação
  da Missão Portugueza), amidst its main body, is a precious gift to all researchers in the field,
  for it is, by all accounts, a unique exemplar of this kind of text by the famous missionary.
  Varo’s written legacy has received special attention from historians of Catholic missions in
  China and researchers on the Ming and Qing Chinese language. However a Confessionario
  is not traced in Varo’s bibliography. The undenied value of the text is its bilingual contents:
  the confessor’s questions in the Portuguese language translated into the earlier Qing Mandarin
  (southern guanhua). Documents, codifying the main Chinese dialect of the 17th c. are
  rather rare, although a number of elaborated descriptions of variant systems of guanhua romanization
  by Western missionaries provide us with all necessary instruments to analyse the
  transcription method, used by Varo in the Confessionario. The author of the article attempts
  to implement the existing methodology to identify the place of this piece of Varo’s work in
  the Chinese romanization mosaic. Being Portuguese-based, the transcription of the Confessionario
  differs significantly from Varo’s Spanish-oriented system in Vocabulario de la Lengua
  Mandarina (1670) and Arte de la Lengua Mandarina (1682–1703), naturally demonstrating
  more in common to the earlier systems by Ricci, Trigault and Martini. A few peculiarities of
  the romanization used in Confessionario are revealed in the article.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: guanhua romanization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: missionary linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Varo
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: earlier Qing Mandarin
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metadata.value: “Confessionario em Lingua Mandarina” by Fr. Francisco Varo: An Unknown Manuscript of the Renowned Dominican
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metadata.value: Article
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