Abridged Record of the Holy Scriptures of the Lord of Heaven

Title

(Latin) Compendius Legis Dominus

(Chinese translitteration) Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan

(CN) 天主聖教約言

Creator

João Soerio

Subject

Catolich religion

Abstract

Catechism

Publisher

China

Date

1600

Type

Book

Format

Printed text, in total 116 pages

Identifier

RARI.I.VII.16

Source

Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova

Language

Chinese

Relation

Three books bound together, two of which are duplicate copies of the same text (Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan).

Gail King , " For the Instruction of Those Aspiring to be Christians : João Soeiro's Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan " , in : Sino- Western Cultural Relations Journal XXVI ( 2004 ) , p . ( 59-67 ) .

Rights

Public Domain

Provenance

Stamp of the Royal University of Genoa (small format, 4 cm x h. 1.5 cm).

Description

(Physical description) Red leather cover with gold floral decoration on the spine and board edges, marbled paper paste down 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)

Has Version

ARSI (Archivum Romanum Societas Iesu, Rome)
- shelf: Jap.Sin. I, 110 (s.l., s.d., 梓傳 by Stephen Weng)
- shelf: Jap.Sin. I, 174.2 (s.l.; s.d.)
- shelf: Jap.Sin. I, 129 (Manchu translation: Abkai ejen-i enduringge tacihiyan-i oyonggo gisun)
BAV (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome)
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 334.2 (15 fols., old print, layout 8/16 (ff. 1a3-7a; 7a2-15b8: Ten Commandments))
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 334.3 (12 fols., Chao xing tang 超性堂 reprint (Hangzhou); layout 9/19 (ff. 1a4-5b3, 5b4-12a8: Ten Commandments). A piece of paper pasted on the cover reads: “Sub hac editione Provinciae Ce Kiang ...” (that is, consulted by Francesco Jovino da Ottaviano OFM in Lanzhou in 1728 and referring to the use of the name Shangdi on “pag. 8, fac. 1, col. 6”, i.e., fol. 8a6).)
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 350.12 (old print: 14 ff. layout 9/18 (1a7-6a7; 6a8-14a1: Ten Commandments; 14a9: [title] 終); 1a2: Yesu hui houxue Su Ruhan shu 耶穌會後學蘇如漢述 ; 1a3-5 (at the end of 1a5, below 丘良 two small characters horizontally, first 'bing' (at the right) [ 秉 not: 稟 ! ], then 'hou': 厚秉): ding 訂 : the Jesuits (tong hui 同會): Li Ningshi 黎寧石 (Pedro Ribeiro, China 1604, d. 1640); Luo Ruwang 羅如望 (João da Rocha, China 1598, d. 1623); Qiu Liangbing 丘良秉 (‘Domingos Mendes’, Chinese Jesuit brother since 1605 [professed 1611], d. 1652); Qiu Lianghou 丘良厚 (‘Pascoal Mendes’, Chinese Jesuit brother since 1608 [professed 1624], d. 1640); 1a6 blank.)
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 518.8 (13 ff., layout 8/20 (ff. 1a3-6a1; 6a2-13b1: Ten Commandments), reprint Chuzhong (= Wuchang 武昌 ?) Qinyi tang 楚中欽一堂重梓刊. Same layout as Jap.Sin. I, 110, but in the latter copy the text of the fourth commandment is one column longer (so the text of the booklet ends at fol. 13b2 instead of 13b1). A piece of paper pasted on the cover reads: “Sub hac editione Provinciae Hu Kuang ...” (that is, consulted by Francesco Jovino da Ottaviano OFM in Lanzhou in 1728 and referring to the use of the name Shangdi on “pag. 8, fac. 2, col. 8”, i.e., fol. 8b8).)
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 221.1 (Chao xing tang reprint)
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 248.1 (old print, three copies)
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 286.8 (Guangzhou reprint (16 f.), probably the church of the Franciscans in the old city)
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 290.9 (duplicate)
- shelf: Borgia Cinese, 439.G (Manchu translation: Abkai ejen-i enduringge tacihiyan-i oyonggo gisun)
- shelf: Raccolta Generale Oriente, III, 222.13 (Manchu translation: Abkai ejen-i enduringge tacihiyan-i oyonggo gisun)
BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
- shelf: Chinois, 6834-6837, 6838, 6839, 6840-6842, 6843, 6844
- shelf: Chinois, 9201-VI
Biblioteca Corsiniana e dell'Accademia dei Lincei (Rome)
- 44-A-1, no. 5 (15 fols., 8/16)
ZKW (Zikawei 徐家匯, Shanghai)
- shelf: ZKW, 220.4
Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (BUG)
- shelf: RARI, I.VII.16,2-3 (2 copies)

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