Subject: Catechisms, Chinese--19th-20th centuries

Catechismi ad usum Vicariatus Nankinensis. Verso Latina
AuthorZottoli, Angelo 晁德蒞, 1826-1902
PlaceZi-ka-wei [Xujiahui 徐家匯]
Publisher---
CollectionRouleau Archives
LanguageLatin-Chinese
TypeDigital Book (PDF), Manuscript (Photocopy)
ShelfReading Room, Digital Archives
Call NumberBX1959.3.E5 Z688 1882x
Descriptionphotocopy [111 p. ; 20 cm.]+dig.ed.
NotePhotocopy of manuscript.
Latin with interlinear romanized Chinese: Recipiendi Baptismi dialogus = Ling si wen-ta.
Title page date unclear; possibly 1882 or 1892.
Each page represents two leaves of the original.
Introduction in French explaining the romanized translation of Chinese terms with Latin originals. Handwritten text occasionally includes Chinese characters in marginal notes.
Library stamps on t.p.: St. Ignatius College Library, San Francisco; California Province Archives.
Local access. [CatechismiNanking.pdf]
Dawen xinbian 答問新編
AuthorNi Huailun 倪懷綸, active 1887
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherXuhui yinshuguan 徐匯印書館
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBX1666.N5 1880
Descriptionpdf. [2, 9 (i.e.18) pages ; 26 cm.
Note

Dawen xinbian  答問新編 /  Ni Huailun  倪懷綸.

Fu : Piqi qianlun 附: 闢畦淺論.(Appears on t.p.). PDF Copy from Rutgers Libraries, bookplate of Madame de Belprat., Columbia University in the City of New York Library affixed on t.p.. At head of. t.p.: Guangxu 6 nian [1880] = 光緖6年[1880]

N.B. This copy appears truncated, as text ends at p.9 (i.e. 18) mid-sentence, with Fu appendix section lacking.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ni-Dawen xinbian.pdf]

Shengjiao qimeng keben 聖教啟蒙課本
AuthorJiangnan Vicariate Apostolic [Jiangnan daimuqu 江南代牧區] (1856-1921)
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherJiangnan gongjiao jinxinghui 江南公教進行會
TypeBook (stitch-bound 線裝本)
ShelfGold Room
Call NumberCase I [BX1962.S546 1913]
Description4 冊in 1 : ill. ; 19.5 cm.
NoteShengjiao qimeng keben 聖教啟蒙課本 / Jiangnan Yao dasimu juankan zhunkan 江南姚大司牧准刊.
"天主降生一千九百十三年" -- t.p.
"Tushanwan Cimutang 土山灣慈母堂"--Colophon. "Yao 姚" = Prosper Paris 姚宗李 (r. 1900-1921). Cf. Charbonnier, Guide to the Catholic Church in China 2004 ed., p. 546.
Tiantang yaoli 天堂要理
AuthorMa Xiangbo 馬相伯, 1840-1939Souen, Melchior [Sun Dezhen 孫德楨], 1869-1951Wang, Jean-Baptiste [Wang Zengyi 王增義], fl. 1884-1933De Jaegher, Raymond 雷震遠, 1905-1980
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherK & K Printing Co. 三一印刷公司
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeScroll
ShelfScrolls
Call NumberN7983.M3 1929
DescriptionHanging scroll. 184 x 76 cm.
Note

Tiantang yaoli 天堂要理 / Ma Xiangbo 馬相伯, 1840-1939; Melchior Souen 孫德楨, 1869-1951; Jean-Baptiste Wang 王增義, fl. 1884-1933; Raymond de Jaegher 雷震遠, 1905-1980.

Printed polychrome paper scroll titled Tiantang yaoli 天堂要理 (Essential principles of Heaven). The scroll presents a Catholic narrative of human history since creation, with a "good path" (shandao 善道) leading to Heaven (via Purgatory) and an "evil path" (edao 惡道) leading to Hell. The scroll was probably used to instruct children. The illustrations on the scroll are in the deliberately non-European style created in the late 1920s by Chinese artists with the encouragement of Celso Costantini (Gang Hengyi 剛恆毅, 1876-1958), papal delegate to China in the era of Pope Benedict XV's apostolic letter Maximum illud.  

The title is given in the (printed) calligraphy of Christian scholar and educator, Ma Xiangbo 馬相伯 (1840-1939). We believe that the calligraphy is signed "Xiangbo, the old man of 90 [sui]" 九十叜 (= 叟) 相伯, which would imply that he wrote the calligraphy in 1929 (1930 if he was using Western reckoning). There are two printed seals, one reading "Xiangbo" 相伯 and the other—we think—"Ma Liang" 馬良, Ma's given name (ming 名).

The bottom of the scroll carries the inscription "With the approval of Bishop Sun of Anguo [Ankwo] diocese, Hebei" 河北安國教區主教孫准 in Chinese and "nihil obstatJ.B. Wang C.M." and "Imprimatur | + M.Souen C.M. | Vic.Ap. de An-Kwo" in Latin, indicating the approval of Melchior Souen (Sun Dezhen 孫德楨), C.M. (1869-1951), Vicar Apostolic of Anguo in 1929-1936, and Jean-Baptiste Wang (Wang Zengyi 王增義), C.M. (fl. 1884-1933). The problem with this inference is that J. van den Brandt, Les Lazaristes en Chine, 1697-1935: notes biographiques, recueillies et mises à jour (Peiping: Imprimerie des Lazaristes, 1936), 167 (item 538) writes that Wang was only transferred from Baoding to Anguo in 1933. The cross preceding Souen's name indicates that sends his blessings, not that he was deceased at the time of printing.

On the verso of the scroll, toward the bottom, it is written "Catechisme de Jaegher" in red ink. Jaegher probably refers to Raymond de Jaegher (Lei Zhenyuan 雷震遠, 1905-1980), who worked under Msgr. Souen.

Printed by K & K Printing Co. 三一印刷公司, a Shanghai firm established in 1928.