N.B.: Han Lin's dates (and brief bio-bibliography) are derived from Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 425. However the table on p. 400 and p. 657 indicates "d. 1644". Associate of the Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone.
Cover illustration: Bibliotheque National de France. Courant 7113
明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第35册.

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"Shanxi community ... Duoshu, arranged around the six moral instructions of the Sacred Edict (Shengyu 聖諭) of the founder of the Ming, is a "community contract" (xiangyue 鄉約) which has the same aim on the community level... ; Duoshu ("The Book of the Warning Bell") the first one of the Six Maxims of the first Ming Emperor, "Be filial towards your parents," is explained as the worldly counterpart of "loving our Great Father-and-Mother"... So the message of the Duoshu is that the doctrine of the Lord of Heaven is a useful instrument for the improvement of society. Han Lin's explanations of the Six Maxims, found in the Holy Edict, are based on both Confucian and Christian arguments, not placed in juxtaposition (as an eclectic would do), but used to support each other, as the true syncretist does..." )"--Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 424, 643, 658.
In volume 2 of: Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻.
For complete contents see: Standaert, Nicolas, Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教 文獻.
For a description of all 37 texts, see the catalog of the Fujen Zikawei collection in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996), or see individual records.

JapSin I, 144
Duoshu 鐸書.
By Han Lin 韓霖. One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in two volumes. No date or place of publication.

The cover of volume two bears the title in Chinese, while the cover of volume one bears a Latin inscription: “To xu, seu sex | articuli doctrinae | Sinis tradi iussae sin | gulis mensibus; -- explicati fusius | a christiano licentiato | Han Lin | 2 tomi.”

Cf. Courant 3326; Hsü 1949, pp. 137–140.

Han Lin (zi 雨公, hao 寓菴), scholar and official, was a native of Jiangzhou 絳州 (Shanxi). He became a senior licentiate (suigong 歲貢) in 1617 and a jinshi in 1621. While in Beijing he made the acquaintance of Xu Guangqi and Alfonso Vagnone. Later he was baptized by Aleni, taking the Christian name Thomas. He had inherited a valuable library from his forefathers and had increased the collection by his wide travelling.
At his native place Han Lin led many of his relatives into the Church. Both he and his fellow townsman Duan Gun 段袞 (zi 九章) became zealous assistants of Vagnone, when he came to found the mission in Shanxi. Besides the Duoshu Han Lin also wrote in collaboration with his friend Zhang Geng 張賡 the Shengjiao xinzheng 聖教信證 (Proofs of the Christian religion), cf. Jap-Sin I, 191.
According to the gazetteers of Jiangzhou, Han Lin seems to have lost his life while hiding from bandits when they took that city in 1644, but the circumstances of his death are not clear; cf. Ye Delu 葉德祿, “Qianlong Jiangzhou zhi zhi Han Lin 乾隆絳州志之韓霖”, in: Xin beichen 新北辰, vol. 3, no. 8 (1937).

For the biography of Han Lin and his three brothers, cf. ECCP 1:274–275; Margiotti, pp. 310–318; JWC 1:253–258; Pfister, p. 212.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 190-191.

Full bibliographic citation, see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 47
Jiaoyao xulun 教要序論.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
One juan. Bamboo paper, bound in European style. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a Latin inscription: “Futior explicatio et | probatio mysteriorum | fidei ad suscipiendum | baptismum | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest | S.J.”

Cf. Hsü 1949, pp. 162–163; Courant 6972–6977 (6972–76 have the title 天主教要序論, while 6977 gives only 教要序論). Fang Hao gives a number of early editions of this book: 1677, 1799, 1848, 1867 (JWC 2:178). This book was reprinted in Zikawei (ed. 4^a 1914, one volume, 106 pp.). Other editions were printed in Hsien-hsien (1932, one volume, ninety-six pages), in Hong Kong (1905, one volume, 120 pp.), in Yenchowfu, Shandong (ed. 3^a. 1931, one volume, 116 pp.) and in Peiping (1931, one volume, fifty-one pages).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 350-351.

"...Han Lin...with Zhang Geng (Fujian)...which shows the communication between the Shanxi and Fujian communities (p.426) ; ...Ancient lists such as...Shengjiao xinzheng (ca. 1680) mention the burial places of many missionaries (p. 587) -- Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1.

本书据法囯囯家图书馆藏1647年序本排印.
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明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第41册.

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"...Han Lin...with Zhang Geng (Fujian)...which shows the communication between the Shanxi and Fujian communities (p.426) ; ...Ancient lists such as.... Shengjiao xinzheng (ca. 1680) mention the burial places of many missionaries (p. 587) -- Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1.

0036R ZKW 720.5 (Xu 433) [c] [Xu 216-217] ms.
Alfonso Vagnone 高一志, Tongyou jiaoyu 童幼教育 (2 juan, ca. 1628); copy-book, 92 ffnc (9/16); juan 1 is the same as juan 2 of Qijia Xixue 齊家西學 (049R) -- Cf. Adrian Dudink, "The Zikawei Collection" (Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996)), p. 17.

JapSin II, 54
Tongyou jiaoyu 童幼教育.
By Gao Yizhi 高一志 (Alfonso Vagnone).
Two juan (juan B is missing). Bamboo paper in one volume with a paper case. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a label with the title written in Chinese ink and a Latin inscription: “De ludo litterario | ad ducendos pueros | a p. Alph. Vagnoni | S.J.”

Cf. Pfister, p. 93, no. 12; Feng 1938, p. 110, no. 12; Hsü 1949, pp. 216–217; Courant 3389–3392; Couplet, p. 12; BR, p. XXXII.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 358-359.

In volume 1 of: Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻.
For complete contents see: Standaert, Nicolas, Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻. For a description of all 37 texts, see the catalog of the Fujen Zikawei collection in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996), or see individual records.