Liber mutationum[1] (litteris Sinicis 易經 Yìjīng)[2] est antiquus divinationis textus veterrimusque ex classicis Sinicis, liber propheticus Sinarum praecipuus. Certe saeculo IV a.C.n., fortasse iam saeculo IX a.C.n., sub forma libri pristini Zhouyi exstetit.
Hexagrammata Libri mutationum a Philippo Couplet depicta (Confucius sinarum philosophus (1687) p. xliv)Pagina editionis Yijing saeculo fere XIII impressae. De hexagrammate primo disseritur
Angelus Zottoli, qui paginas selectas Libri mutationum in florilegio suo anno 1880 Sinice et Latine recitavit, haec de operis natura praefatus est:
Quid igitur tandem famosus iste Yî King? Paucis accipe: ex linearum qualitate continua vel intercisa; earumque situ, imo, medio, vel supremo; mutuaque ipsarum relatione, occursu, dissidio, convenientia; ex ipso scilicet trigrammatum corpore seu forma, tum ex trigrammatum symbolo seu imagine, tum ex trigrammatum proprietate seu virtute, tum etiam aliquando ex unius ad alterum hexagramma varietate, eruitur aliqua imago, deducitur aliqua sententia, quoddam veluti oraculum continens, quod sorte etiam consulere possis ad documentum obtinendum, moderandae vitae solvendove dubio consentaneum ... Nil igitur sublime aut mysteriosum, nil foedum aut vile hic quaeras; argutulum potius lusum ibi video ad instructiones morales politicasque eliciendas ...[3]
Edward L. Shaughnessy, "I Ching 易經 (Chou I 周易)" in Michael Loewe, ed., Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide (Berkeleiae: Society for the Study of Early China, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California, 1993. ISBN 1-55729-043-1) pp. 216–228.
Editiones et versiones selectae
Ioannes Baptista Régis, interpr.; Iulius Mohl, ed., Y-king, antiquissimus Sinarum liber quem ex Latina interpretatione p. Regis aliorumque ex Societate Jesu edidit Julius Mohl. 2 voll. Stuttgartiae: Cotta, 1834 (Latine)Textus apud archive.org
James Legge, interpr., The Sacred Books of China: the texts of Confucianism: part 2: the Yi King. Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1882 (Anglice)Textus apud Internet Archive
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts. Novi Eboraci: Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0231161848(Anglice) (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
Eruditio
Claudia von Collani, "The First Encounter of the West with the Yijing: Introduction to and Edition of Letters and Latin Translations by French Jesuits from the 18th Century" in Monumenta Serica vol. 55 (2007) pp. 227-387 JSTOR
Edward L. Shaughnessy, "A First Reading of the Mawangdui Yijing Manuscript" in Early China vol. 19 (1994) pp. 47–73.
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics. Albaniae Novi Eboraci: State University of New York Press, 1997. ISBN 0-791-43378-1
Richard J. Smith, Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: the Yijing (I Ching, or Classic of Changes) and its Evolution in China. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. ISBN 0-8139-2705-6.
Richard J. Smith, The I Ching: A Biography. Princetoniae: Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-691-14509-9
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