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起源于沃尔芬布特尔赫尔佐格八月图书馆(HAB)的一份广泛手稿的鉴定，其中包括所谓的日语翻译的哲学、神学和宇宙学纲要(约1595年)，自16世纪末以来20多年来一直是日本和后来的澳门耶稣会学院的教育基础。虽然三方汇编，一般归因于西班牙耶稣会佩德罗戈麦斯(1533/35-1600)，早已知道在其原始拉丁文形式(1593年)，直到今天，只有第一部分(德阿尼玛)和第二部分(德神学)的大部分日语翻译(约1595)已在一个单一的手稿。它的价格接近800 pp.在文本方面，除了完整的第二部分之外，HAB手稿现在第一次包括整个第三部分(De Sphaera)，其中介绍了亚里士多德和托勒密传统中的地心模型和四要素理论。该项目的目的是以一个以用户为中心的、易于访问的、对历史具有批判性的数字版本来呈现新发现的《纲要》文本见证，以便于各种不同领域的学者使用。为此，波鸿鲁尔大学日本语言和文学部与作为手稿所有者的民政事务局之间安排了密切的合作--同时作为数字人文领域的知名机构，通过其数字图书馆和其系列数字版本因其在XML/TEI-P5编码、文本挖掘工具和搜索算法等方面的经验而闻名。与数字版相辅相成的是一个学位论文项目，该项目试图说明只有数字版本才能为我们提供的潜力。本文将运用语言学、翻译学和数字文体学的方法，对文本的作者和译者身份、文本的起源和传播、文本的欧洲模式以及文本所反映的翻译策略等几个相互关联但尚未解决的问题进行探讨。首先，目前赠款提案的筹备工作已经取得了可喜的成果，但只有在整个汇编的数字版本的基础上，上述方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.