Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qvà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper ...
Added t.p., engraved. "Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end.

Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio.--De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis.--De idololatria ex Occidente primùm in Persidem, Indiam ac deinde in ultimas Orientis, Tartariæ, Chinæ, Japponiæ regiones successivâ propagatione introducta.--China curiosis naturæ & artis miraculis illustrata.--De architectonica cæterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium.--De Sinensium literatura.

Library copy markings (B[ibliotheca] M[ajor] ZKW M11).
N.B. Library copy missing two important engravings, those of Schall and of Ricci & Xu Guangqi. Bindery note inserted indicates missing sheets.

The full text of China monumentis is available online on several websites.
See ECHO website
See also: Internet Archive
See also: Beyond Ricci (as China Illustrata)

For complete bibliographic information see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
Local access digital pdf. [Kircher-China monumentis.pdf]

See also Hathi Trust

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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.

本書主要以法國來華傳教士李明的《中國近事報導》為研究對象, 從該書的寫作特點、主要內容、對中國禮儀之爭影響和對伏爾泰、魁奈、萊布尼茨等啟蒙思想家的影響四方面進行研究, 凸顯出李明在中外文化交流史上的貢獻和地位.--OCLC record.

目錄. 序. 前言
第一章 “國王數學家”李明來華
第一節 保教權下的中國
第二節 “國王數學家”李明來華
第三節 李明回國時間考
第四節 李明在中國的活動
第二章《中國近事報導》的主要內容及寫作特點
第一節《中國近事報導》出版前法國對中國的認識
第二節《中國近事報導》的主要內容及其寫作特點
第三章《中國近事報導》的中國形象（上）
第一節 中國人的性格
第二節 中國女人
第三節 軍人、軍事
第四節 中國政治制度
第四章《中國近事報導》的中國形象（下）
第一節 瓷器、建築
第二節 茶、人參
第三節 中國的水果
第五章《中國近事報導》與“禮儀之爭”
第一節 “禮儀之爭”的背景
第二節《中國近事報導》與“禮儀之爭”
第三節索邦神學院對《中國近事報導》的批評
第六章《中國近事報導》對啟蒙思想家的影響
第一節《中國近事報導》對伏爾泰的影響
第二節《中國近事報導》對魁奈的影響
第三節《中國近事報導》對萊布尼茨的影響
第四節《中國近事報導》對其他思想家的影響
結語.
附錄一 李明在華期問未刊信札. 附錄二《中國近事報導》的常見版本
參考文獻. 外國人名中西文對照表. 後記.

"This work contains the official government texts of the Tribunal of Rites which in 1669 solemnly declared that the Christian religion was innocent of the calumnies which its enemies had fabricated. As a result, the missionaries held as prisoners in Canton were to be released"--Insert, "From the collections of the Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History."
"...this is a particular case, for its exceptional (Chinese-Latin) bilingual character, and for its documentary character, since it apparently almost completely relies on original Chinese documents. Its author is conventionally indicated A. de Gouvea or A, Lubelli; in fact, contemporary evidence points to F. de Rougemont."--Cf. N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 185.

JapSin II, 74

Innocentia | Victrix, | sive | Sententia Comitiorum Imperij Sinici | pro | Innocentia | Christianae Religionis | Lata juridicè per annum 1669. | & | iussu R. P. Antonij de Govvea, Soc.^is | Iesu, ibidem V. Provincialis, | Sinico Latinè exposita, | In Quamcheu metropoli provinciae Quam tum in Regno Sinarum, | Anno Salvtis Humanae MDCLXXI.
Twelve copies, in two paper cases. The book is bound in Chinese style and the folios are arranged from left to right.

The title page bears in the middle the emblem of the Society of Jesus. On top is printed the word Innocentia and at the bottom Victrix. Around the emblem a Latin inscription is given: promicat e tenebris clarius ipsis. The letters are in white on a black background. On the verso of the title page are engraved Chinese characters in the seal style: 上主赫臨 | 宣義於世 (The Lord [of Heaven] solemnly appears, He manifests his justice to the world). Each character is accompanied by the equivalent romanization (xam chu he lin | siuen y yu xi).
There is a preface (one-half folio), written in Latin by António de Gouvea. This book contains memorials to the throne presented by the Jesuits in the Imperial Observatory and memorials from the Ministry of Rites, all drawn up after the persecution by Yang Guangxian. There is a message offered to the deceased Schall by the Kangxi emperor written in seal style script. There are also some imperial decrees giving permission to the missioners who had been detained in Guangzhou to return to their missions. Some of these decrees are given also in the Xichao dingan 熙朝定案 (Jap-Sin II, 66–73); the texts, however, are not always exactly the same. The documents in Chinese given in this book are all accompanied by equivalent romanization side by side with the characters. A Latin translation is given after each document. Seemingly, the book was printed to be sent back to Europe. Pfister (pp. 222–223, no. 2) indicates:

Innocentia Victrix . . . , petit in–fol. de 43 pp. paginé à la chinoise. L’approbation est datée du 28 déc. 1670. Cet ouvrage, extrêment rare, a été imprimé à la manière chinoise sur planches de bois. C’est probablement le premier livre de ce genre imprimé à Canton. Le texte latin se trouve dans les Paralipomema ad Propylaeum Act. SS. Maii des Bollandistes, pp. 131–137. C’est la sentence par laquelle la première cour de l’empire déclarait solennellement, après examen, que la religion chrétienne était innocente des calomnies dont ses ennemis l’avaient chargée; on devait rendre à la liberté les missionnaires retenus prisonniers à Canton. Plusieurs d’entre eux étaient appelés à Pékin pour travailler à l’astronomie, les autres seraient renvoyés dans leurs églises respectives aux frais du Gouvernement, et les missionnaires pourraient faire profession de leur religion, mais il leur était encore défendu de la prêcher, et aux Chinois de l’embrasser. C’était un grand pas vers la liberté, après la persécution des 4 régents (1664–1666). (Cf. Cordier, L’imprimerie, p. 375).

Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 381-382.

Local access dig.pdf. [Le Comte-Memoirs English.pdf]

N.B. 1696 Paris ed. in dig. pdf. [Le Comte-Nouveaux memoires.pdf (v.1-2)]

Status Missionis Shanghai [上海]: anno 1943-1944 / Provinciae Franciae Societatis Jesu. -– Status Missionis Ankinensis [安慶] / Provinciae Legionensis Societatis Iesu 1943-1944. -– Status Vicariatus Apostolici Haimenensis (Kiang-su) [海門] anno 1943-1944. -– Status Missionis Kinghsiensis Societatis Iesu [景縣] anno 1943-1944. -– Status Missionis Pengpu Provinciae Taurinensis [蚌埠] Societatis Jesu anno 1943-1944. -– Catalogus Missionis de Sienhsien Provinciae [獻縣] Campaniae Societatis Iesu anno 1943-1944. –- Status Missionis Süchowensis [徐州] Societatis Iesu anno 1943-1944. –- Status Missionis Taming [大名] Provinciae Hungariae Societatis Iesu anno 1943-1944. –- Status Missionis Wuhuensis [蕪湖] Provinciae Castellanae Societatis Iesu [1]943-1944.

Printer marks vary: Zi-Ka-Wei [Shanghai] : Ex Typographia Missionis Catholicæ in Orphan. Tʻou-sè-wè.
Separate reports bound together in leather boards, tabs in Chinese added.
Text in Latin and Chinese.
Includes indexes and tables.
At head of title: A.M.D.G. (1st number)
"Octobri 1943."

Gift of Artur Stasiek, UIUC. April 2017.