Shandong Province Library copy

Information on Tianwenlue copy at Shandong Provincial Library is as follows:

天問略一卷［葡萄牙陽瑪諾撰　明萬歷刻本　十行二十二字白口左右雙邊有刻工］

Tianwenlue. 1 volume. [written by Manuel Dias from Portugal; Ming block print from the Wanli era; page layout: 10 lines, 22 characters per line]

It is not clear if this copy is identical with the one mentioned by Albert Chan in his ARSI catalogue.

This copy needs to be checked.

More on the original copy II

Talked with Zhang Baichun from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He has been commissioned (together with a host of other scholars) to inventorize, organize and eventually publish a huge collection of original writings from the China mission Jesuits that are stored at the Vatican. During this editorial work, he has been on the lookout for something that might look like an original copy of the Tianwenlüe - also because he believes that there must be such an original text. Let's hope he is right.