“The author of these sermons probably is the Chinese Jesuit brother and catechist Lu Xiyan 陸希言 (1630-1704), also called Dominique…..[he] is known as the author of a collection of sermons held during an ecclesiastical year on Sundays (Zhounian zhuri kouduo 週年主日口鐸) and on feasts (Zhounian zhanli kouduo 週年瞻禮口鐸)…. Also the presence of some ‘Jesuit’ feasts points to a Jesuit as the author. Possibly it was the Chinese priest André Ly who in 1747 rearranged the original version.”

“[Mss.] contains the text of short daily sermons given on 374 successive days. These sermons are meditations on the Gospel readings of the Sundays and main feasts during a year. On weekdays, if there was no main feast, the sermon continued with further explaining the Gospel reading of the preceding Sunday or feast. These 374 sermons appear to cover the period 18 January 1690 – 27 January 1691. That it concerns the year 1690 is clear from the fact that the text mentions several times that the Incarnation took place 1690 years ago….” Cf. Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database). N.B. The above note applies to the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris) mss. Chinois 7406-7407.