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The Japanese studies of Andreas MOller ( 1630-1694)
b. then in the manner of their Mandarin pronunciation with which the Chinese
author indicated each.
c. lastly as in Duret, Thresor, 13 pages 913ff.
10. Beware however, not to think of the syllables, which Duret assigned
to the Japanese letters in the place cited, that these [here] are to be assigned to
those. For he confused them all, as is revealed, if one is not reluctant to compare
his edition with the present one, as I have restored each single one herein.
l l . The Japanese letters in Roman order
A. 36. Ka. 14. 25. Ne. 20. Ta. 16.
Ce. 46. Ke. 31. Ni. 4. Te. 35.
Co. 33. 15. Kio. 48. No. 26. 40. To. 7.
E. 34. Ky. 38. 0. 12. [40.] 'tSo. 18
5. Fa. 3. Lu. 28. Ph e. 6. 'tSu. 19.
Fe. 20. Ma. 30. 30. Pho. 5. 'tSy. 8.
Fi. 44. Me. 40. Po. 2. Ve. 17
Fu. 32. 20. Mi. 41. Pou. II. Wa. 13. 22.
l. 25. Moe. 23. Ri. 9. [45.] Wo. 27.
10. Ja. 29. Mou. 10. Sa. 15. 37. 14 Wou. 24.
Je. 43. Mu. 45. [35.] Si. 42. Y. I.
Ju. 39. Na. 21. Su. 47.
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12. In place of numbers either purely Japanese readings or Chinese characters
and readings are used.
13. The former they call Jomi, the latter Coje. 15 See the table [in the section]
Notce Numerorum Illiteratce. 16
15. 17 Examples of readings
(a) from the Japanese manuscript: five, which are to be read thus:
13
I.e. Duret (161311619: 913- 9 M5). While the original title ofDuret's work, Thresor de /'histoire des
langves de cest vnivers, appears to suggest that Muller's abbrevation "Thes." is an error for "Thres.", thi.s
is not actually the case - it is rather an abbreviation of the Latinized title "Thesaurus (linguarum tmiversi)".
Cf. MUller's list of collectors of versions of the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of his own collection, where
it is listed as "Claud. Duretus, in Thesauro LL. universi, Gall."
14
Probably an error for "47''-but in fact this is only number 46, jt11st as "40" is only number 39.
15
I.e. Japanese proper (kun 'yomi ~J IIW'i:]f., formerly simply yomi fJJil) versus Sino-Japanese (on 'yomi "~if
Vi/f.]f., formerly ko[y]e i!f). Cf. below on the probable source, namely Collado's grammar.
16
This is the final section in the first half of both AU and A aN and deals with a number of systems representing
numerals. We will come back to this section further below as an explicit reference to Japanese
is found here as well.
17
The numbers jump directly from 13 to 15. The error is retained here for easier reference to the original.
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