Subject: Jesuits--China--17th century--Imprisonment--Personal narratives

Incrementa Sinicæ Ecclesiæ, a Tartaris oppugnatæ ...
AuthorGabiani, Giandomenico 畢嘉, 1623-1694
PlaceWien
PublisherVoigt [Drucker]
CollectionRouleau Archives
Edition
LanguageLatin
TypeBook
Series
ShelfRare Book Cabinet
Call NumberDS754.G42 1673
Description225 manuscript pages ; 20 cm. (boards, vellum spine)
NoteIncrementa Sinicæ Ecclesiæ, a Tartaris oppugnatæ ... accurata et contestatâ narratione, Exhibita Patri Nostro in Christo P. Joanni Paulo Oliva, Societatis Jesv Praeposito Generali per P. Joannem Dominicum Gabiani, ejusdem societatis Sinarum Imperio Anno Salutis 1667.
OCLC subtitle varies: "accuratâ et contestatâ narratione è Sinarum Imperio à R.P. Joanne Dominico Gabiani Societatis Jesv Anno Salutis 1667 perscripta, ab Austriacâ ejusdem Societatis Provincia accepta, [et] exhibita anno 1673."
Incomplete handwritten transcription from Zi-Ka-Wei library (M82)
Citation: Streit, Bibliotheca Missionum V: 2413, p. 854-855 (1673) ; OCLC edition title varies from Streit and library copy.

"This work (ms. finished 1667), written on the basis of eyewitness reports and other private annotations on a yearly basis...is a historical account of the position of the Chinese Church during the early days of the Manchu domination." Included are notes from Verbiest, Magalhaes, and Buglio during their imprisonment--Standaert, N., Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 183, 197.

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