Subject: Catholic Church--Prayer books and devotions--China--17th century

Shengjiao jianyu 聖教簡語. [ZKW 95577B]
AuthorYan Zanhua [Ambrosius], 嚴贊化, d.>1681
PlaceTaibei Shi 台北市
PublisherTaipei Ricci Institute 利氏學社
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
SeriesXujiahui cangshulou Ming-Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian xubian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻續編
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A2 X845 2013 v.17
Descriptionpp. 563-604 ; 22.5 cm.
NoteShengjiao jianyu 聖教簡語 / Yan Angboxue 嚴盎愽削 = Yan Zanhua 嚴贊化.
In vol. 17 of: Xujiahui cangshulou Ming-Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian xubian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻續編. -- 45. 聖教簡語 (嚴盎愽削 = 嚴贊化)
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Tianzhu jingjie 天主經解. [BnF 7313. Jap-Sin I, 147a]
AuthorRho, Giacomo 羅雅谷, 1592-1638
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CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
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Call NumberBX1665.A24 B526 2009 v.21
Descriptionv. 21, p. 169-280
NoteIn: 法國國家圖書館明清天主教文獻. Chinese Christian texts from the National Library of France, v. 21. 145. Iacomo Rho 羅雅谷. Tianzhu jingjie 天主經解 [7313].

Full bibliographical citation, see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin I, 147a
Tianzhu jingjie 天主經解.
By Luo Yagu 羅雅谷 (Iacomo Rho).
One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in one volume. Published by the Catholic Church of Peking 金臺景教藏板. No date of publication.

The cover bears the title in Chinese with a Latin inscription: “Explicatio orationis | dominicae | a p. Jac. Rho S.J.”
The title page bears the title in four large characters with the name of the author on the right: 遠西羅先生著, and that of the publisher on the left (see above). The verso of this folio gives the names of the censors: Long Huamin 龍華民 (Niccolò Longobardo), Fu Fanji 傅汎際 (Francisco Furtado) and Tang Ruowang 湯若望 (Adam Schall von Bell).
There is a table of contents (one folio). The main text consists of fifty-two folios. Folio 1 gives the title and the author’s name: 遠西耶穌會士羅雅谷著述. It also says that the text was read and improved by Li Tianjing 李天經 of Yinghai 瀛海 (Hebei) and revised by Han Yun 韓雲 of Hedong 河東 (Shanxi). There are nine columns in each half folio with nineteen characters in the first column of each paragraph and eighteen characters in the rest of the paragraph. The title of the book is given in the upper middle of the folio and the number of the folio is given below.
This book is an explanation of the Lord’s prayer from the beginning to the end. It begins with a general introduction followed by the prayer, divided into sections according to its meaning. Folio 4r gives the Lord’s prayer in large characters. The method seems to have been taken from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Cf. Pfister, p. 190, no. 4; Hsü 1949, pp. 25–26; Courant 7313–7315; Couplet, p. 22; BR, p. XXXIV.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 195-196.

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