DE ANIMA – Digital Edition & Analysis of a Newly Discovered Jesuit Manuscript: The Herzog August Bibliothek manuscript of the Jesuit Compendia of Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology in Japanese Translation (ca. 1595)

本文概述的研究项目源于对赫尔佐格·奥古斯特图书馆（HAB） （wolfenbttel）的一份大量手稿的鉴定，其中包括所谓的哲学、神学和宇宙学纲要的日文翻译（约1595年），自16世纪后期以来的二十多年里，它构成了日本和后来澳门耶稣会学院教育的基础。虽然通常被认为是西班牙耶稣会士佩德罗Gómez（1533/35-1600）所著的三部《简编》（Compendia）的拉丁文原文早已为人所知（1593年），但直到今天，只有第一部分（De Anima）和第二部分（De Theologia）的日文译本（约1595年）的大部分内容可以在一份手稿中找到。在接近800页的文本中，HAB手稿除了完整的第二部分之外，第一次包括了整个第三部分（De Sphaera），其中介绍了地心说模型和亚里士多德和托勒密传统的四元素理论。该项目的目的是以用户为中心，方便访问，历史批判的数字版本呈现新发现的《简编》文本见证，以便于各种不同领域的学者随时可用。为此，波鸿鲁尔大学日本语言文学系与HAB作为手稿的所有者，同时作为数字人文领域的知名机构，通过其数字图书馆及其在XML/TEI-P5编码，文本挖掘工具和搜索算法等方面的经验系列数字版本而闻名，并与HAB进行了密切合作。数字版是一个论文项目的补充，该项目旨在说明只有数字版才能为我们提供的潜力。通过应用语言学和翻译研究以及数字文体学领域的方法，本文将解决有关作者和翻译，文本的起源和传播，以及其欧洲模式和反映在其中的翻译策略的几个相互关联但迄今尚未解决的问题。在本赠款建议的筹备工作中已经取得了初步的可喜成果，但是，只有在整个《简编》的数字版本的基础上，上述办法才能充分发挥其潜力。

The research project outlined herein has its origin in the identification of an extensive manuscript at Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB), Wolfenbüttel, which comprises the so-called Compendia of philosophy, theology and cosmology in Japanese translation (ca. 1595), forming for more than two decades since the late 16th century the basis of education in the Jesuit colleges in Japan and later Macau. Although the tripartite Compendia, generally attributed to Spanish Jesuit Pedro Gómez (1533/35–1600), have long been known in their original Latin form (1593), up until today only the first part (De Anima) and most of the second part (De Theologia) of their Japanese translation (ca. 1595) have been accessible in a single manuscript. With its close to 800 pp. of text, the HAB manuscript now comprises for the first time, in addition to the complete second part, the entire third part (De Sphaera), which introduces the geocentric model and the four-element theory in the tradition of Aristotle and Ptolemy. The aim of the project is to present the newly discovered text witness of the Compendia in a user-centered, easily accessible, historical-critical digital edition in order to make it readily available to scholarship in a variety of different fields. To this end, a close cooperation has been arranged between the Section of Japanese Language and Literature at Ruhr University Bochum and the HAB as the owner of the manuscript — and at the same time as a renowned institution in the field of Digital Humanities, well-known through their Digital Library and their series of digital editions for their experience in encoding in XML/TEI-P5, text-mining tools and search algorithms, among others. The digital edition is complemented by a dissertation project which seeks to illustrate the potential only a digital edition is in a position to provide us with. By applying methods from the fields of linguistics and translation studies as well as of digital stylometry, several interrelated but hitherto unresolved issues concerning author- and translatorship, the genesis and transmission of the text, as well as its European models and the translation strategies reflected in it will be addressed herein. First promising results have already been achieved in the preparatory work towards the present grant proposal, yet it is only on the basis of the digital edition of the entire Compendia that the aforementioned approach will reach its full potential.