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Title Bian zhengjiao zhenchuan shilu 辯正教真傳實錄. [Shilu 實錄]. [Apologia de la verdadera religion en letra y lingua China]
Date1593
AuthorCobo, Juan 高母羨, ca. 1546-1592
PlaceMinxila [i.e. Manila]
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageChinese 中文[繁體]
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBT1100.C63 1593d
Descriptiondig.pdf. [164 frames: ill.]
NoteBian zhengjiao zhenchuan shilu 辯正教真傳實錄 / [Juan Cobo]
Title in Spanish: Apologia de la verdadera religion en letra y lingua China.
Some marginal notes and library marks in Spanish.

First book printed in the Philippines (1593); only copy known extant at the National Library of Madrid. See BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL HISPÁNICA, BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA.

Local access digital pdf [Cobo-Shilu.pdf]

See also:
Eugenio Menegon, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, esp. p.52
Liu Dun, “Western knowledge of geography reflected in Juan Cobo’s Shilu 實錄 (1593)” in History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia II edited by Luís Saraiva, pp. 45-57. Note: Liu uses variant character Bian 辨 in title 辯正教真傳實錄 as do a few other sources.
Ricardo Martínez Esquivel, Pablo Rodríguez Durán, “Entre la religiosidad china y el evangelio cristiano: ¿una mirada a la “otra” primera divergencia?” online at Universidad de Costa Rica Revista Estudios.

Online record also linked on Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.

SubjectGeography--Early works to 1800 Catechisms, Chinese--16th century Natural sciences--Early works to 1800
OCLC776258887