• Misa jingdian = Missale Romanvm (Missal)
    彌撒經典

Uniform title:
  • Missal. Chinese
Author:
  • Catholic Church
Contributor:
  • Buglio, Luigi, 1606-1682
  • Magalhães, Gabriel de, 1609-1677
  • Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688
  • Jesuits
  • Chinese Rare Books Project
Publisher:
  • [Beijing] : [Beijing ye su hui gong xue] , [Qing Kangxi 9 nian i.e. 1670]
  • [北京] : [北京耶穌會公學] , [清康熙9年 i.e. 1670]
Edition:
  • Ke ben, yang zhuang.
  • 刻本, 洋裝.
Extent:
  • 1 volume ; 31 cm
Format:
Description:
  • Title page in Latin: "Missale Romanvm auctoritate Pauli V. Pont. M. Sinicè redditum a P. Ludovico Buglio Soc. Iesu Panormitano. Pekim: In Collegio eiusd. Soc. An. M.DC.LXX." which means: "Roman Missal, authorized by Pope Paul V., translated into Chinese by Father Ludovico Buglio (1606-1682), Jesuit of Palermo. [published at] Peking, in the College of the same [Jesuit] Society, 1670"
  • WHS shelf-list has note: Printed xylographically on folded leaves in the Chinese manner, with figural title in Latin.
  • 書中第七葉"歷年移動瞻禮表"日曆始于康熙十五年[1676].
  • 中文書名葉背面題: "極西耶穌會士利類思譯; 安文思, 恩理格, 柏應理, 魯日滿, 聶仲遷訂; 值會南懷仁准".
  • 框23.3 x 15.5公分, 14行24字, 白口, 四周雙邊, 單黑魚尾. 版心上鐫小題.
  • 拉丁文書名頁大意為:"彌撒經典 教宗保羅五世欽准 耶穌會利類思神甫漢譯 北京耶穌會公學 1670年".
  • 洋裝，云龍圖案綾封面，帶有兩個小銅鎖.
Subject:
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Classical Chinese
    Beijing, 1670, paper

    From the 16th century onwards the Jesuits formed links with some members of China’s ruling class, producing works in Classical Chinese. In 1615 they obtained papal approval to use the Missale Romanum in Chinese, not Latin. Ludovico Buglio took 24 years to make his translation, finally published in 1670–76. The book itself, appropriately, is a hybrid of a codex (the outer binding), and the common Chinese book form (inside).

    Bequest of William H. Scheide ’36, 2015
    Scheide 46.1

    For further reading

    Seah, Audrey. “The 1670 Chinese missal: a struggle for indigenization amidst the Chinese rites controversy.” In China's Christianity: from missionary to indigenous church, edited by Anthony E. Clark, 86-120. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

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