0063R ZKW 640.6 (Xu 432) *strip [c] [Xu 302, CY 113] [B - ]
ms., Bi Fangji zouzhe 畢方濟奏摺, memorial presented by Francesco Sambiasi on the 6th day of the 12th month (i.e. January 3, 1645), asking for a burial place for João Rodrigues (d. 1633); ZKW copy-booklet, 4 ff. (10/20). note 56: Xu and Chen Yuan do not give a date (Pfister 143: 1633). P. Hoang reproduced it (in a version slightly different from the present text) under the year 1639; Zhengjiao fengbao (145R), ff. 17a-18b (cf. DMB 1147b). As the text speaks of a new reign (Longfei 龍飛, f. 16b) and of the reform of the calendar under the previous Emperor, Sambiasi must have presented it to the Hongguang Emperor (Southern Ming, 1644-1645) in Nanjing; cf. M. Cooper, Rodrigues the Interpreter (New York, 1974)-- Cf. Adrian Dudink, "The Zikawei Collection" (Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996)), p.21.

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.

Pubian jishi / Yu Yang zhuan -- Pubian xiaocheng / Chen Hong zhuan -- Pujing xiaoji / Chen Hong zhuan -- Rongcheng jiwen / Haiwaisanren zhuan -- Koubianji koubian houji, fu Zhaibaoji baochengji / Li Shixiong zhuan -- Jiayin shiji / yiming zhuan.
莆變紀事 / 余颺撰 -- 莆變小乘 / 陳鴻撰 -- 莆靖小紀 / 陳鴻撰 -- 榕城紀聞 / 海外散人撰 -- 寇變紀寇變後記, 附寨堡紀堡城紀 / 李世熊撰 -- 甲寅實紀 / 佚名撰.

A tale of dynastic change in China : the Ming-Qing transition through Athanasius Kircher SJ’s China illustrata (1667) / Yuval Givon.
Extract from Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu vol. lxxxviii, fasc. 175 (2019-I)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-100) and glossary.

Summary:
The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher SJ is among the prominent writers of seventeenth-century Europe, and his China illustrata (1667) was one of the most celebrated and influential works on China of the period. The present essay examines the contexts and sources for Kircher’s description of the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the foreign Qing dynasty, a monumental event of global significance which attracted the attention of European scholarly circles and foreign powers alike. Strangely, while Kircher’s network of social contacts provided him access to the best sources available on the matter, including eye witnesses, as this essay outlines, his presentation of the events in China is odd, inaccurate, and, at times, misleading.

However, a closer examination of Kircher’s sources — especially the first-hand accounts of events from fellow-Jesuits visiting Rome — reveals tensions, disagreements, and conflicting narratives that existed within the Jesuit China mission during the transition period and might have influenced the author. Kircher’s intellectual enterprise was always intertwined with his religious piety and promotion of the Society of Jesus. Thus, this essay proposes that his ‘mistakes’ can be seen as an attempt to reconcile contradictory voices among the Jesuit missionaries and to offer a unified narrative to European readers, reshaped to fit the author’s devout vision of history as well as the religio-political needs of the Society of Jesus and its China mission.
Summary also in French.

Local access dig.pdf. [Givon-Kircher.pdf]

Zuiweilu 罪惟錄 / [Zha Jizuo zhu 查繼佐著 ; Zhang Langsheng, He Bocheng ding 張閬聲, 何柏承訂].
Facsimile reprint.
References: Hummel, A. Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing dynasty, p. 18-19.

"...Compared to the official dynastic history of the Ming dynasty, the Mingshi 明史, the Zuiweilu presents much more information on the Southern Ming 南明 (1644-1661) princes and their efforts to reestablish the dynasty. The treatises are very detailed and include three chapters on matters not covered by the Mingshi, namely the field system (Tutian zhi 土田志), corvée and taxes (Gongfu zhi 貢賦志), and military colonies (Tuntian zhi 屯田志). The biographies are not centered on persons' lives but on certain events they were involved in.

The Zuiweilu, as critical towards the Manchu rulers of the Qing dynasty 清 (1644-1911), was banned from circulation. One exemplar survived in the library of Master Liu's Jiayetang Studio 劉氏嘉業堂. In 1936 the Shangwu Yinshuguan Press 商務印書館 printed this version. It is also included in the third series of the series Sibu congkan 四部叢刊"--Cf. ChinaKnowledge.de

Zuiweilu 罪惟錄 / Zha Jizuo zhu 查繼佐著.
References: Hummel, A. Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing period, p. 18.