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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 26789-26876 Language English Place China, Asia

1. Add MS 26816

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VOL. I. 1. Treatise on the funeral rites of the Chinese, the cult of the dead, etc., written upon the occasion of the burial of Antonio Provana, Jesuit missionary at Canton, in 1723. Lat. f. 5. b. see Vol. iii., f. 130. 2. "Testament de l'impératrice, mère de l'empereur chinois qui regne aujou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700-1740
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 26816-26818

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TRACTS, copies of correspondence, and other papers relating to the Catholic missions in China, chiefly in connection with the controversy between the Jesuit and other missionaries on questions of Chinese doctrine and ritual; collected apparently by Jean Francois Fouquet, Jesuit missionary, and afterwards Bishop of Eleutheropolis; circa 1700-1740. Three volumes. Paper. Quarto. With the book stamp of Cardinal Gentili. Among the contents are:-
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Orders Religious. Jesuits: Documents relating to their proceedings in China: 17th, 18th centt. Jean François Foucquet, Jesuit Missionary, afterwards Bishop of Eleutheropolis: Collections relating to the Catholic missions in China: circ. 1700-1740. China: Collections on the Chinese and the Papa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700-1740
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 26817

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VOL. II. 1. Letters of Pope Innocent XIII. to the Emperor of China; 1723. Lat. f. 1 b. 2. Observations by Charles [Maigrot], Bishop of Conon, upon the memorial of the General of the Jesuits to the Pope in the preceding volume. Lat. f. 4. 3. "Observationes in librum cui titulus Sinensis Imper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700-1740
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 26818

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VOL. III. 1. Copies and extracts of controversial correspondence of the Bishop of Eleutheropolis, on matters of Chinese doctrine 1723-1726. Fr. and Ital. ff. 1-65, passim. 2. "Editto dell' Imperadore della Cina vicino alla sua morte;" 1722, 76. 3. Rites observed at the burial of a Chinese em...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700-1740
Extent:
1 item