Note 113 — The Printing of the Books
Reading edition
Aduarte, I, p. 140, says, before the previously quoted passage, that Cobo “put the Doctrina Christiana in the Chinese language,” and Viñaza, pp. 17–23, lists seven books by him, including the famous translation of the Chinese classic, Beng-Sim-Po-Cam, the original MS. of which, with an introductory epistle by Benavides, dated from Madrid, December 23, 1595, is in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid; an Arte de las letras chinas; Vocabulario chino; Catecismo o doctrina christiana en chino; (cited from León Pinelo, op. cit., 1737–38, I, col. 142); Tratado de astronomia en chino; Linguae sinica ad certam revocata methodum (called by Martinez-Vigil, op. cit., p. 263, “the first works or work on the Chinese language”); and Sententiae plures, excerpted from various Chinese books. See also Beristain, op. cit., I, p. 316, and Quétif and Echard, op. cit., II, pp. 306–7.