Add MS 16913

MEMOIRE instructif, en forme de Journal, sur ce qui c'est passé au sujet des Missions de la Chine, depuis l'arrivée en cet Empire de

Monseigneur [Charles Thomas Maillard] de Tournon, Patriarche d'Antioche, aujourdhuy Cardinal, jusq'au départ de Monseigneur [Charles] Maigrot, Vicaire Apostolique, Evesque de Conon," 1704, 1705 (imperf.), f. 2;-" Relation des alf'aires de la Chine, touchant la Religion, 23 Dec. 1708;" in a letter from one of the missionaries in China. At the end is a Latin translation of an Imperial Edict for the expulsion of missionaries not having an Imperial diploma; dated 24 July, 1708; and a copy of a letter from Charles, Bishop of Conon, to Pare Gorbillon, Superior of the French Jesuits at Pekin; dat. Canton, 11 Feb. 1707, Fr., f. 32;-" Copy of an Attestation by Père Claude Visdelou and Pare [Antoine] Beauvolier, of an act of recognition of Chinese idolatry, by Charles Maigrot, Bp. of Conon, in 1699, Lat., certified by G. Daubenton, Soc. Jes., f. 42 ;-" Relatio sepulturæ magno Orientis Apostolo S. Francisco Xaverio erectæ in Insula Sanciano, anno Sæculari MDCC.," by Père Gaspard Castner, f. 44;-" Epistola R. P. Joannis Francisci Gerbillon, Soc. Jesu, Missionariorum Gallorum apud Sinas Superioris Generalis, ad Patrem Michaelem Angelum Tamburinum, Soc. Jesu Vicarium Generalem;" dat. Pekini, 13 Nov. 1705, f. 60;-Copy of a Letter from Père Dominique Turpin to Père Du Halde; dat. Pondicherry, 6 Feb. 1716, Fr., f. 65 ;-"Del estat present de la mission de la Chine;" consisting principally of a dissertation on the meaning of the words Tien and Xam Ti, and to show that the Chinese religion is not opposed to the worship of the true God (imperf.), f. 67; -" Acta inter Majestatem suam Tartaro-Sinicam, Legatum Apostolicum et Mandarinos, a 26 Nov. 1720, usque ad discessum ejusdem Legati Pechino, tertia Martii 1721," f. 91 ;-" Mémoires sur le Royaume de Mien [Pegu], de Monseigneur Claude Visdelou, Evêque de [Claudiopolis] ; traduction du Chinois;" dat. Pondicherri, 27 Jan. 1722 ; accompanied by extracts from several printed works, f. 1 1 6 ;-

Tract in defence of the Jesuit Missionaries in Cllina, in their controversy with the " Missions Etrangares" (imperf.), Fr., f. 131 ;-

" Copie sur l'original de la Lettre de Mess. Fiberge et Triffacier, Superieurs des Missions Etrangères, pour lavertir des friponneries des Jesuites de la Chine sur le culte de Confucius," etc. [addressed to M. de Ponchartrain] ; dat. Paris, 25 Sept. 1702, f 154 ;-Letter from a Jesuit, respecting the discountenance of the Propagandist missionaries at the Court of Rome, in their attacks against the Jesuits, 1728, Fr. f. 157;-A Letter of general news, addressed to Pare [Charles] Le Gobien; dat. Paris, 31 Aug. 1695, Fr., f. 159;-Copies of two Letters to Père Judde, at Nantes; dat. Dinant, 29, 31 July, 1695 [the signature, commencing with G . . ., has been cut out], Fr., f. 161 ; -" Lettre d'un homme de la Cour A Madame de Lionne, sur sa lettre du 23 Avril, 1701," f. 163 ;-"Recit d'un combat naval donné entre une petite Barque Françoise et l'arinée des Iroquois, prez le fort de

Frontenai, dit Katarokoui, le 14e. Sept. 1687," by a Jesuit missionary, f. 167 ;-Copy of a Letter of a Jesuit Missionary, who had served in Canada, respecting the treacherous treatment of the Iroquois by the French Government in Canada [in 1686-1683]; written after his return to France, and dated Paris, 23 Jan. 1695, Fr., f. 173. Small Quarto. [16,913.]