Contents: Edit. 23 items (p. 1-9): “Remarques” on the 23 items (pp. 9-65); “Edit de l’Empereur de Chine ordonnant des largesses (a son avenement a la Coronne)” (p. 67-84), “Testamentum Imperaticis ex qua natus Imperator hodie Regnas Apud Sinas” (pp. 85-88); “Notae” (pp. 89-93) The death of the Emperor K’ang-hsi (1654-1722; emperor 1662-1722) occ...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Shu-King, sometimes described as the “Canon of History” and the oldest source of pre-Confucian history – indeed, it is supposed to have been edited by Confucius himself – begins by extolling the virtues of the Emperor Yau and his successor Shun. A combination of good qualities, their lives were examples of perfection to be admired and emulat...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
By 1732 activities of European missions had been reduced by two decades of Chinese policy to the trading ports of Canton and Macao. This account of overt Chinese xenophobia was written shortly after the events described. The extensive crackdown began on August 20 with a search for fugitives believed to have sought safety in the eight churches in...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1732
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Extract from a manuscript on Chinese astronomy listing 29 constellations, their notation, longitude, grade, and signs. On the verso, crossed out in contemporary ink, is an unfinished list of Chinese fixed constellations compared with the longitudes of Tycho Brahe’s tables of 1628.
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725 - 1732
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
