Ferdinand Verbiest, 1623-1688 : een Vlaamse zendeling aan het Chinese Hof / U.J. Libbrecht.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Deze brochure werd uitgegeven door de Kredietbank ter gelegenheid van het Verbiestjaar 1988, in haar culturele brochurenreeks"--Prelim.
Cover title omits dates. Dates on t.p. in parentheses (brackets) and OCLC rec'd uses comma.

Ferdinand Verbiest and Jesuit science in 17th century China : an annotated edition and translation of the Constantinople manuscript (1676) / Noël Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis.
Jointly published: Athens : Institute for Neohellenic Research ; Leuven : Ferdinand Verbiest Institute.
In English and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.

"This book contains two manuscript texts of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688), written in 1676 in Beijing to the attention of the Russian tsar, and brought by the legate Nicolas Spathary Milescu to Moscow. Both texts represent the oldest layer of the Astronomia Europaea corpus, and were until recently forgotten. Their recent discovery was in the form of a manuscript copy, which Chysanthos Notaras had made them in Moscow in 1693. The manuscripts have since then been kept in library of the Metochion of the patriarchate of Jerusalem in Constantinople. In this publication, the authors are reconstituting the Latin text, translating it in English and annotating it. In the Introduction, the manuscripts are situated within the corpus of Verbiest's Latin writings, and are depicted both the parts that were afterwards re-cycled in the well-known Compendium Latinum and Astronomia Europaea edition (Dilingen, 1687), and those that were eventually omitted. Moreover, the story of the Moscow manuscript, and especially that of its Constantinopolitan copy - until now the only remaining testimonium of it - is traced. This description also reveals an until now unknown reception of 17th century Jesuit astronomy, mechanics and physics in post-Byzantine Russia and South-Eastern Europe."--Publisher's description.

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Root and branch: the place of the Portuguese Jesuits in the early modern China missions / Liam Matthew Brockey -- Tomás Pereira and the Jesuits of the court of the Kangxi Emperor / Paul Rule -- Father Tomás Pereira, SJ, the Kangxi Emperor and the Court Westerners / Ku Weiying -- The image of Tomás Pereira in Qing Dynasty documents / Zhang Xianqing -- From the earthly court to the heavenly court: the death and funeral of Tomás Pereira / Claudia von Collani -- The last imperial honours: from Tomás Pereira to the Eulogium Europeorum Doctorum in 1711 / António Vasconcelos de Saldanha -- 'Amicíssimos', Tomás Pereira and Zhao Chang / Jin Guoping -- The Fô and the Xekiâ: Tomás Pereira's critical description of Chinese Buddhism / Rui Magone -- Ubi dux, ibi curia: Kangxi's imperial hunts and the Jesuits as courtiers / Eugenio Menegon -- 'Riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms': the last memorial (27 January 1688) of Ferdinand Verbiest / Ad Dudink -- The 'Edict of Tolerance': a textual history and reading / Nicolas Standaert -- Tomás Pereira's appeal to the Portuguese Jesuits and missionary recruitment to China / Tereza Sena -- Ferdinand Verbiest's letter of 1678 to King Afonso VI of Portugal and the possible role of Tomás Pereira in its conception / Noël Golvers -- Defending European astronomy in China...against Europe: Tomás Pereira and the Directorate of Astronomy in 1688 / Antonella Romano -- Resolution of some questions about Tomás Pereira's arrival in Beijing and service at the Directorate of Astronomy / Shi Yumin -- Seventeenth-century Jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from Europe to China / Francisco Roque de Oliveira -- The Jesuits at Nerchinsk: language, war, and ethnicity / Peter Perdue -- Tomás Pereira at the Nerchinsk conference / Vladimir Stepanovich Myasnikov -- Tomás Pereira, Jing Tian and Nerchinsk: evolving world-view during the Kangxi period / João de Deus Ramos -- Mission by music: the challenge of translating European music into Chinese in the Lülü Zuanyao / Gerlinde Gild -- The organist and organ builder Tomás Pereira: some new data on his activity / João Paulo Janeiro.

Contents: Contextualização histórica da missão Jesuíta da China (1582-1680):
O Padroado Português do Oriente: Origem e contornos do Padroado do Oriente. O Padroado e a Propaganda Fide. Consequências imediatas da controvérsia em torno do Padroado.
A Companhia de Jesus e a Missionação da China: A imagem da China e o projecto de Xavier. De Macau a Xaô Kim. Progressão no terreno e interpenetração cultural. O processo de Nanquim. As décadas da consolidação (1624-1644). Velhos constrangimentos em novas circunstâncias (1644-1665). Da «grande perseguição» ao final do primeiro século (1665-1680).

A Questão dos Ritos Chineses:
O período de 1583 a 1634: questão dos termos, dos ritos, as primeiras reacções. O período de 1635 a 1742. Ordens Mendicantes versus Companhia de Jesus. A descontextualização do debate. A Assembleia de Cantão. A generalização da controvérsia e as decisões de Roma.
António de Gouvea, missionário e cronista (1592-1677):
O Perfil Humano. Das montanhas da Biera Interior ao cais de Lisboa. Do Tejo a Goa nas naus da Carreira da India. De Goa a Macau. O estágio de Macau. O primeiro encontro com a velha China. A Missão de Vú Cham, na Província de Hu Quam. A Missão de Fó Cheu, na Província de Fokién. Entre os bárbaros do norte e os ladrões do mar. Uma brecha na solidão. Viagem a Pequim e exílio em Cantão. Regresso a Fó Cheu e repouso no Monte da Cruz.
O Percurso Bibliográfico ; Cartas Ânuas da China (1636, 1643, a 1649) ; Ásia Extrema (1644) ; Monarquia da China (1654) ; Innocentia Victrix (1671) ; Pequeno Catecismo ; Escritos dispersos

Bibliografia: p. 447-472

FRANCO DEMARCHI: Martino Martini und die Chinamission der Jesuiten im 17. Jahrhundert — KLAUS SCHATZ S.J.: Jesuiten und Propaganda-Missionare. Zwei unterschiedliche Wege der Akkommodation — SEVERINO VARESCHI: Heiliges Offizium gegen Propaganda"? Das Dekret des Jahres 1656 in der Ritenfrage und die Rolle Martino Martinis — LANFRANCO M. FEDRIGOTTI S.D.B.: Martino Martini's De Bello Tartarico. A Late Ming and Early Qing Chronicle, Valid Point of Reference for a "History of the People" — ADRIAN HSIA: The Literary Reception of Martino Martini's De Bello Tartarico Historia (1654) in Europe — UTA LINDGREN: Wissenschaftshistorische Bemerkungen zur Stellung von Martinis Novus Atlas Sinensis (1655) — CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Theologie und Chronologie in Martinis Sinicae Historiae Decas Prima (1658) — LUCIA LONCO: Martino Martinis Traktat über die Freundschaft (1661) — ARNOLD ZINGERLE: Verwandtschaft trotz Fremdheit? Eine Hypothese zu den Bedingungen der Verständigung zwischen Jesuiten-Missionaren und Literaten-Beamten.
Drei Nachdrucke: BENNO M. BIERMANN, O.P.: War Martino Martini chinesischer Mandarin? -- HENRI BERNARD, S.J.: Les sources Mongoles et Chinoises de l’Atlas Martini (1655) -- H. VERHAEREN, C.M.: A German edition of Fr. Martini’s Novus Atlas Sinensis.
Biogramm — Bibliographie — Generalindex.