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Title
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Riccius Mattheus “Confutatio Sectae Bonzaicae” Sinice. In 4°. X.(9).10
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(EN) Posthumous Letters Discussing [Topics of ] Learning
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(Latin) Confutatio Sectae Bonzaicae
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(Chinese translitteration) Bianxue yidu
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(CN) 辯學遺牘
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Creator
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Matteo Ricci
Xu Guangqi (徐光啓)
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Subject
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Debate of Catholic religion against Buddhism, letters written in response to Buddhist Texts.
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Abstract
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Letters Written in Response to Buddhist Texts. The first part consists of two letters. The first, written by Yu Deyuan (虞德園), also known as Yu Chunxi (虞淳熙) (1553–1621), and addressed to Ricci, invites him to study Buddhism before dismissing it without proper understanding. The second letter, written by Ricci in reply to Yu Deyuan, constitutes his response.
The second part comprises a debate in response to a text by the Chan Buddhist monk Lianchi (蓮池) (1535–1615), also known as Shen Zhuhong (沈祩宏). In his work Zhuchuang sanbi (竹窗三筆, Three Notes of the Bamboo Window), he presents four chapters under the title “On Heaven” (Tianshuo 天説), in which he rejects Christian doctrine. The texts have traditionally been attributed to Matteo Ricci, although there is considerable debate regarding their authorship. Apart from the first letter, which is probably by Ricci, the other texts are very likely by Xu Guangqi (徐光啓) (1562–1633) (cf. Silk 2013: 581).
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Publisher
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China
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Date
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1624
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Type
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Book
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Format
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Printed text, in total 116 pages
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Identifier
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RARI.I.VII.16
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Source
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Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
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Language
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Chinese
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Relation
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Three books bound together, two of which are duplicate copies of the same text (Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan).
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"Jonathan A. Silk (Ed.). 2013. Buddhism in China Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher. Leiden-Boston: Brill. Pp. 581–582.
Standaert, Nicolas. 1988. Yang Tingyun. Confucian and Christian in late Ming China: his life and thought. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Pp. 175–182."
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Provenance
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Stamp of the Royal University of Genoa (small format, 4 cm x h. 1.5 cm). The text is present in duplicate within the collection (see 14 b)
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Description
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(Physical Description) Red leather cover with gold floral decoration on the spine and board edges, marbled paper pastedown on the front and rear boards, followed by laid endpapers featuring a watermark of an eagle with outstretched wings; 18th-century binding.
(Size) 25,8x16,5; 1,8 (cm, height x width, thickness)
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Has Version
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"ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societas Iesu, Rome)
- shelf: Jap.Sin. I, 50
- shelf: Jap.Sin. II, 24.1 (duplicate of Jap.Sin. I. 50)
- shelf: Jap.Sin. I, 51 (reprint Qin yi tang)
BAV (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome)
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 329.2
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 350.8
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 231.13
BNC.VE (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome)
- shelf: 72 C, 473
BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
- shelf: Chinois, 7084
- shelf: Chinois, 7085, 7086 (duplicates)
- shelf: Chinois, 7087, 7088 (Qin yi tang reprint and duplicate)
- shelf: Chinois, 7089-I (MS copy, 44 fols.; together with Brancati's 'Sheng jiao si gui' 聖教四規 (一))
ZKW (Zikawei 徐家匯, Shanghai)
- shelf: ZKW, 230.25
Fujen University 輔仁大學 (in Academia Sinica, Taibei)
- shelf: 009R, (= ZKW 540.5)
- shelf: 042R, item 4, (= ZKW 830)
- shelf: 043R, item 3, (= ZKW 830)
Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (BUG)
- shelf: RARI, I.VII.16,1"
