Choix des lettres édifiantes : écrites des missions étrangères ; avec des additions, des notes critiques, et des observations pour la plus grande intelligence de ces lettres ; précédé d'un tableaux géographique de la Chine, de sa politique, des sectes religieuses, de la littérature, et de l'état actuel du Christianisme chez ce peuple / par M. ***
t. 1-3. Missions de la Chine -- t.4. Missions de l'Inde -- t.5-6. Missions du Levant -- t.7-8. Missions de l'Amérique.

Various volumes and editions online:Hathi Trust: Revised and considerably enlarged edition, prepared by a new and unnamed editor, of Choix des lettres, etc., ed. by J. B. Montmignon, 8 v., Paris, Maradan, 1808-09. V.6. p. 1-331 contains a new introductory account of the discovery of America and of Canada, and letters from missions, as in the Lyons 1819 ed.
Also at BSB, and various other sites.

Letters of a Peking Jesuit : the correspondence of Ferdinand Verbiest SJ (1623-1688) /  [edited by] Noël Golvers.

Introduction and commentary in English; letters in various languages, chiefly Latin and Portuguese.

Revised and expanded version of the edition entitled Correspondance de Ferdinand Verbiest, edited by Henri Josson and Léon Willaert; published Brussels : Palais des Académies, 1938.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 949-962) and indexes.

Together with Verbiest’s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). Side by side with the copies of his astronomical drawings and eclipse maps, inventoried in F. Verbiest and the Chinese Heaven (2003), these letters reveal a wide-ranging network of contacts, within China and with Europe. The topics are as many and various as the 55 correspondents are different, spanning the whole spectrum from the Jesuits in Moscow to Pedro II in Lisbon, from the Franciscans in Shandong to Pope Innocentius XI and the Cardinals of CPF in Rome.  The topics are related to his successive positions in the Jesuit hierarchy in China, his work as an engineer and ‘astronomer’ for the Court and his international diplomatic interventions, with the Jesuit mission in China as the central argument. Verbiest appears in his letters as a very engaged personality, with strong (but carefully outed) convictions and a wide outlook, which comprises the Peking and European Courts, together with Manila, Goa and Siam in one vision. This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (ed. by H. Josson and L. Willaert), publ. in Brussels in 1938. It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions (due to A. Dudink), all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation. All this makes this pluri-linguistic corpus (mainly in Latin and Portuguese) to a first hand testimony of the Jesuit mission in China during the restoration from its crisis (1665-1669) to its apogee, of which many dramatic moments and aspects are revealed by the author, who was the main agent in this process.

Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission to China, 1583-1610 : a short history with documents / R. Po-chia Hsia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Portuguese Asia -- Catholic renewal -- Ming China -- Matteo Ricci -- Ricci in our time.

Document 1. Excerpt from the chronicle of a Carthusian monk in Cologne, 1535 -- Document 2. Policy debate on maritime trade among Ming officials ca. 1564 -- Document 3. Gregory Martin, Roma Sancta (1581), excerpt describing the Jesuit College in Rome -- Document 4. Letter from the Jesuit missionary Nicolò Spinola, describing the dangers of sea voyage from Portugal to India, 1578 -- Document 5. Ricci's letter to General Claudio Acquaviva, November 25, 1581, from Goa, India -- Document 6. Ricci's letters from Macao to Martino de Fornari and Claudio Acquaviva, February 13, 1583 -- Document 7. Ricci's letter to Juan Bautista Roman, September 13, 1584, describing statecraft and religion in China (excerpts) -- Document 8. A Chinese poem by Michelle Ruggieri and an excerpt on his missionary strategy -- Document 9. Account of Ruggieri's encounter with Buddhist monks during his travels in the winter of 1585-86 to Zhejiang -- Document 10. Excerpts from relevant passages of Della entrata on the missionary work of the Jesuits in Zhaoqing, their relationship with their mandarin patrons, and Ricci's scientific work -- Document 11. Alessandro Valignano and Alonso Sanchez: two Jesuit views on evangelization in East Asia, 1581-88 -- Document 12. Excerpts from letters written by Ricci to General Claudio Acquaviva, Shaozhou, November 15, 1592, and January 15 and 17, 1593 -- Document 13. Excerpt from a description of Ricci by a mandarin in Shaozhou, written ca. 1592 -- Document 14. The first impression of Ricci by Qu Rukui (written in 1599 and recalling events from the 1580s) -- Document 15. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Duarte de Sande, Nanchang, August 29, 1595 -- Document 16. Translations from On Friendship, the first Chinese work written by Ricci in Nanchang (excerpts) -- Document 17. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's debate with the Buddhist abbot Xuelang Hong'en in Nanjing, 1599 -- Document 18. Letter by the Chinese dissident and scholar Li Zhi to a friend, in which he describes his impressions of Ricci (ca. 1599) -- Document 19. Poem dedicated by Li Zhi to Ricci -- Document 20. The Nanjing writer Gu Qiyuan's description of Ricci (ca. 1598-99) -- Document 21. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's 1600 journey to Beijing and his imprisonment by the eunuch Ma Tang -- Document 22. The mandarin Feng Yingjing's endorsement of Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) -- Document 23. Excerpt from Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) to illustrate the concordance between Christian moral teachings and Confucian texts and Ricci's attacks on Buddhism -- Document 24. Ricci's World Map compared with a Chinese map of the Ming Dynasty and a Portuguese map of 1502 -- Document 25. Letter by Ricci to his father, Giovanni Battista Ricci, May 10, 1605 -- Document 26. Preface by Ricci on the Chinese translation of Euclid and on his collaboration with Xu Guangqi (1608) -- Document 27. Excerpts from Ricci's Chinese work Qiren shipian (Ten Discourses of the Man of Paradox), which recorded actual conversations between Ricci and Chinese interlocutors on Christianity -- Document 28. Letter by the Buddhist layman Yu Chunxi to Ricci, in which he criticizes Ricci's opposition to Buddhism (1608) -- Document 29. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Francesco Pasio, vide-provincial in the Japan Jesuit mission, February 15, 1609 -- Document 30. The legacy of Ricci in China.

The 'Acta Pekinensia' or historical records of the Maillard de Tournon legation. Volume III: January 1708 - February 1709 / by Kilian Stumpf SJ ; edited by Paul Rule, Claudia von Collani.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-625) and index.

The 'Acta Pekinensia' is a Latin manuscript found in the Jesuit Roman Archives. It is a record of the papal legation to China of Charles Maillard de Tournon, from his arrival in China to his death in Macau. It was compiled by Kilian Stumpf, a German Jesuit missionary/scientist serving at the court of the Kangxi emperor of China. Stumpf was in a privileged position to record day by day the events of this crucial episode not only in the history of Christianity in China but in Chinese-Western relations. This annotated translation provides a full documentation and an acute and lively commentary on the clash of values which resulted in the failure of the legation and the condemnation of Chinese Rites.

Local access dig.pdf. [Acta Pekinensia 3]

The Acta Pekinensia, or, Historical records of the Maillard de Tournon legation : first transcribed edition and English annotated translation / Kilian Stumpf SJ ; Paul Rule, Claudia von Collani, editors.
Print volumes contain the annotated English translation. Digital images of the original manuscript and transcriptions of its Latin text are available on the accompanying CD-ROM.

"Draft translators of the original Latin manuscript are for vol. I: Ian Falconer, Joseph Holland, both deceased, and Paul Rule."--Volume 1, title page verso.

Publication of the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and Macau Ricci Institute.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

*CD contains an index of abbreviations, the Acta Pekinensia [ARSI Jap-Sin 138] manuscript itself in 401 p. [i.e. 201 .jpg frames], and a 428 page pdf of the typescript of the Latin manuscript.
Volume I. December 1705-August 1706.

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The Acta Pekinensia, or, Historical records of the Maillard de Tournon legation : Volume II : September 1706-December 1707 / by Kilian Stumpf, SJ ; edited by Paul Rule, Claudia von Collani.
"With special thanks to Rev. Dr. Gerard J. Hughes, SJ, for his contribution to the scholarly translation of the Acta Pekinensia"
Includes bibliographical references (p. [785]-787 and index.

Contents: ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction -- ‎The Acta Pekinensia-September 1706 to December 1707 -- ‎ Major Headings and Subheadings -- ‎Compendium of the Acta Pekinensia for 1705 and 1706 -- ‎September 1706 -- ‎October 1706 -- November 1706 -- ‎December 1706 -- January-February 1707 -- March 1707 -- ‎April 1707 -- ‎May 1707 -- ‎June 1707 -- ‎July 1707 -- August 1707 -- ‎September 1707 -- October 1707 -- ‎November 1707 -- ‎December 1707 -- ‎Bibliography -- General Index.

Volume 1 was released in the series: Monumenta historica Societatis Iesu. Nova series ; vol. 9.
Volume 2-3 is released in the series: Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia ; v. 1., v. 10

"...As in the first volume, the translation is based on a transcription from the original manuscript of the "Acta Pekinensia" in the Jesuit Roman Archives (Jap. Sin.138) made by three Latinists in Poznan (Poland): Monika Miazek Meczynska, Ewa Jarmakowska, and Katarzyna Prychitko. A first draft translation was then made by Jesuit classicists (in Australia, Joseph Holland, John Wilcken, John Begley, and Stan Hogan; also Gerard ]. Hughes of Campion Hall, Oxford University).
This was then revised and annotated by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani, who take ultimate responsibility for the text as it now appears. The Compendium was translated by Paul Rule with the assistance of Claudia von Collani. We wish to acknowledge the constant support of the Macau Ricci Institute, especially the initiators of the project, Yves Camus and Luis Sequeira, and for this and we hope subsequent volumes, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, under the direction of Fr. Antoni Ucerler and Dr. Wu Xiaoxin. And special thanks are due to the assiduous editor of this volume, Stephen Ford."--Introduction (vol. 2).

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