Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Pé-t'ang / Mission catholique des Lazaristes à Pekin.
Preface signed: H. Verhaeren.
Reprint by Société d’Edition “Les Belles Lettres” (1969) of the 1949 ed. published by Imprimerie des Lazaristes, Pékin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxv).
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Catalogue of the Pei-T'ang Library / Lazarist Mission, Peking China.
Originally published: Peking : Lazarist Mission Press, 1949 in French: Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Pei-tʻang [Pé-T'ang]. At head of title: Mission Catholique des Lazaristes à Pékin. Pekin : Imp. des Lazaristes, 1949. [Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1969].
T.p. and prefatory material in English; colophon in Chinese. Catalog divided by language: French section -- Latin section -- Italian section -- Portuguese section -- Spanish section -- German section -- Greek section -- Dutch section -- Hebrew section -- Polish section -- Slavonic section. Includes indexes.

"The facsimile reprint is restricted to the catalogue itself. Verhaeren’s introduction 'Aperçu historique de la Bibliothèque du Pé-t’ang' (pp. V-XXXIII) is replaced by an English translation....". For this and more information on the Beitang catalog cf. Macaulogia Fórum de Estudos sobre Macau 澳門學論壇.
Accompanied by booklet in Chinese: Beitang tushuguancang Xiwen shanben mulu [fulu bufen] 北堂圖書館藏西文善本目錄 [附錄部分] / Beijing Qianshihui bian 北京遣使會編. [Translation of the English preface by Li Guoqing 李國慶].
Booklet also in pdf format: Digital Archives local access [Beitang Library Supplement.pdf]

"北堂是北京最大的天主教堂, 是法國耶穌會士於1693年建成, 當年藏書為四堂之冠, 西文善本達5000冊以上, 其中還包括非常珍貴的"搖籃本", 內容涉及宗教, 科學與文化等各個方面. 英國書史專家對北堂藏書給予了極高的評價, 他們認為其中"早期歐洲印本圖書之全, 不僅在遠東, 而且在亞洲都是無與倫比的 ... "本書目著錄圖書4101種共5133冊, 有極高的文獻和研究價值."--OCLC note.

Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ : his European network and the origins of the Jesuit library in Peking / Noël Golvers.
Included bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. The European 'Tour’
1.1 The prelude: Terrentius's academic Wanderjahre (c. 1590-1610): From Freiburg to Rome
1.2 Rome (1610-15)
1.3 From Rome to Lisbon: Terrentius's tour as Trigault's companion for China (1616-18)

Chapter 2. The People
2.1 Personal acquaintances: the 'active' network
2.2 Other names

Chapter 3. The Books and Instruments Collected
3.1 Terrentius's personal reading and the Fondo Faber
3.2 The 331 books bought (or received) at the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp (December, 1616)
3.3 The 75 books, with the inscription: "Missionis Sinensis"
3.4 The instruments
3.5 The arrival in Macau and Peking

Chapter 4. The Multiple Competences of the Polymath Terrentius
4.1 Medicine: Terrentius's double profile
4.2 Mineralogy: minerals, mining and mineral sources
4.3 Botany
4.4 Mathematics
4.5 Terrentius astronomer
4.6 Calendar
4.7 Terrentius and magnetism
4.8 Cryptography
4.9 Linguistics
4.10 Encyclopedism

Chapter 5. A Final Assessment of Terrentius

Appendices
1. Bibliotheca Pontificia in the actual Beitang collection
2. Documents in the archives of the Officina Plantiniana
3. List of the 75 books in the Beitang catalogue with the inscription: "Missionis Sinensis"
4. Short title catalogue of Plantin-Moretus editions among the books Terrentius-Trigault acquired in Europe
5. Necrology of Terrentius (1630)
6. List of 36 letters from / the 35 letters to Terrentius

A thorough analysis of the sinuous peregrinatio academica of Johann Terrentius Schreck (1576-1630) between 1600-1618 through (South-, Central- and NW-) European universities, academies and courts (at Freiburg /Br.; Paris; Rome; Basel; Padua; Strasbourg, Prague, Kassel, etc.) and his rich correspondence displays a widespread network of contacts, covering a broad range of domains, from medicine to alchemy, pharmacy, botany, and through engineering to (pure and applied) mathematics, and calendar making. In all these domains of the contemporary ?Republic of Letters?, this former student of François Viète (Paris), Galileo (Padua) and ex-Lincean, adept of Copernicus and Paracelsus showed himself to be a passionate scholar with multi-faceted and versatile talents. After 1611, with this very rich experience he entered the Society of Jesus, and shortly afterward he was appointed as companion of Nicolas Trigault, who was touring through Europe (1615-1618) as procurator on behalf of the fledgling Jesuit Mission in China, seeking funds, men, books and scientific instruments. This second phase of intensive travelling through European centers of scholarship, patronage, and printing (including Rome; Venice; Basel; Frankfurt; Cologne, Antwerp, etc.) resulted in an enormous collection of books and instruments, which were dispatched to Lisbon from various points in 1617/1618. Shipped to China, these materials arrived in Macau in 1619, and in Peking in 1625, becoming the core of the Jesuit libraries, mainly in Peking, and the basis for the scholarly activities of the Jesuits over the following decades in the domains of mathematics, calendar making, medicine, etc.

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