The
Jesuit Archives in Rome (Archivum Romanum
Societatus Iesu) contains books and manuscripts
from the Ming (1368-1644) and Ch'ing (1644-1911)
dynasties on Chinese history, Chinese and
Western philosophy, astronomy, and other sciences;
volumes by Westerners introducing Christian
thought to the Chinese; and works by Chinese
Christians comparing what they were taught
by the Jesuits with the Buddhist, Taoist,
and Confucian traditions.
Many
works deal with the famous Chinese rites controversy.
There are also volumes that treat other religious
groups such as the Muslims and the Jews. Some
of the works include marginal notations by
the emperors of China, famous Chinese scholars,
and Jesuit missionaries. There are printed
collections of memorials presented by the
Jesuits to the emperors of the Ch'ing dynasty,
rare Chinese catechisms that were published
in Manila, eighteenth century Japanese works,
some of the first Chinese-Western dictionaries,
and much more.
This
catalog consists of careful descriptions of
the archival items in the Jesuit Archives
described above with bibliographical sources
pertaining to them. English is the main language,
but Latin, other European languages, and Chinese
(with characters) are also abundant.
Review
of this book available on-line. Written
by Paul Rule, senior lecturer at the History
Department at La Trobe University, Australia,
and Distinguished Fellow of the Ricci Institute
at the University of San Francisco, this review
discusses the origins and contents of the
Chinese language collection of the Roman Archives
of the Society of Jesus and the method used
by Father Chan in his catalog. Please click
here (PDF format).
NOTE:
The
Taipei Ricci Institute recently published
a collection of twelve volumes on Chinese
Christian Texts from the Roman Archives of
the Society of Jesus, which contain a selection
of hitherto unpublished texts that belong
to Japonica-Sinica section (Jap. Sin. I-IV)
of the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus.
The texts analyzed in this catalog were edited
by Nicolas Standaert, S.J., and Mr. Ad Dudink
from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven.
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how to place an order, please click here
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