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Manuscript treatise on Chinese constellations and astronomy, including a translation of Bu Tian Ge, a Chinese star catalogue in verse attributed to Wang Ximing.

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Manuscript catalogue of historical astronomical observations, with remarks.

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Two manuscript treatises on Chinese chronology: Examen de la chronologie chinoise, and Examen et verification de plusieurs epoque de l'histoire chinoise (in two parts).

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A history of astronomy and mathematics in China from 1368 until the arrrival of Jesuit astronomers.

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 198 leaves (the final 51 leaves mostly blank), comprising an account of the life of Gonzalo de Tapia and the Jesuit mission in Sinaloa, Mexico. In Spanish, primarily written in a humanist miniscule bookhand, by an unidentified scribe, with later marginal annotations in a different hand. With a hand-drawn portrait of Gonzalo de Tapia, with hand color. The primary text was evidently written before the 1634 death of Hernando de Villafañe, who is mentioned as being alive,...

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 107 leaves, written in cursive Latin script, in several hands. First 2 leaves blank, followed by a title page, and main text of 74 leaves with handwritten foliation (leaves 16, 35, and 64 blank). Leaves 62-63 repeated. Leaves 75-100 blank except for foliation; 2 blank leaves at end. Includes epigrams, emblems, laudatory poetry, letters, and essays on tobacco and chocolate.00 |g Contents (supplied by cataloger; Latin titles transcribed from caption titles): |g...

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 145 leaves, comprising a compendium of 16th-century Spanish devotional texts attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francisco of Borja, Saint John of Avila, Louis de Blois, and Luis de Granada. Five unnumbered leaves (blank except for inscription on second leaf "Escúsatte de cargos, que es de cristianos timoratos a dios") precede the main text of 128 leaves with handwritten foliation on upper right rectos, followed by 1 blank leaf, an index of 5 leaves, and 6...

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One-page manuscript oath in which André-Nicolas Forgeot renounces the practice of the Chinese rites. Signed by Forgeot and co-signed by Jean-Sylvain de Neuvialle, superior of the French Jesuit China mission. With six lines in manuscript by de Neuvialle.

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One-page manuscript oath in which Jean-Gaspard Chanseaume renounces the practice of the Chinese rites. Co-signed by Jean-Sylvain de Neuvialle.

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One-page manuscript oath in which Jean Sylvain de Neuvialle renounces the practice of the Chinese rites.

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One-page manuscript oath in which José d'Espinha renounces the practice of the Chinese rites. Co-signed by Polycarpo da Sousa, Bishop of Beijing.

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One-page manuscript oath in which Joseph-Marie Amiot renounces the practice of the Chinese rites.

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One-page manuscript oath in which Pierre K'ieou renounces the practice of the Chinese rites. With his signature in Chinese.

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One-page manuscript oath in which Thomas Jean-Baptiste Lieou renounces the practice of the Chinese rites. Co-signed by Bartolomeu Manuel Mendes dos Reis, Bishop of Macau.

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Bound manuscript copy of the printed edition published in Lugano in 1786, prepared by an unidentified scribe. The text is a critique of José Basilio da Gama's epic poem "O Uraguay."

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Bound manuscript of 120 pages (last 5 pages blank), consisting of a devotional text written in the first person. Text begins on page 3 "Firma Animi decreta. Quemadmodum testudines et cochleae suas domunculas..." and concludes on page 113 "In itineribus memor sis frugalitatis, et modestiae ac pietatis."

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Three works on the Chinese calendar by the French Jesuit missionary Antoine Gaubil. Includes diagrams and tables.

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