Author: N/A - Pope ALEXANDER VII - Charles MAIGROT - Nicolas CHARMOT - Louis Le COMTE :
Title: De Ritibus Sinensium erga Confucium Philosophum, et Progenitores Mortuos Alexandri Papae VII. Decreto permissis Asversus librum inscriptum, Historia cultûs Sinensium, &c.
Description: .: Leodii, no printer, 1700, in-12°, 146 mm, 388 pp + (6)nn pp (index). Bound in contemporary mottled calf, extremities of binding worn and damaged (corners and turn in)raised gilt spine. Interior with some clear waterstains at some pages. Still an acceptable copy. With a modern library rubberstamp on the title page; also on the title page in the upper margin: ''Domus prof. par. Soc. Iesu'' (contemporary manuscript ex-libris in ink). Extensive commentary on the controversy over the Jesuit accomodation of Chinese rites and theology. (also called ''the Rites Controversy''. On page 23 and following the arguments of Charles Maigrot (1655 - 1730), active in China are repeated. Other texts are by Nicolas Charmot and Louis Le Comte. See Cordier Sinica item 882. See also Lust item 901 - describes an incomplete copy .. .

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