Author: (ALEXANDRE, NOëL).
Title: Conformita delle cerimonie Chinesi, colla idolatria Greca, e Romana. In conferma dell' apologia de Domenicane missionari della China.
Description: Colonia, appresso gli Heredi di Cornelio d'Egmond, 1701.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, autograph title to spine. 158 pp.First published in 1700. - 'The eminent Dominican theologian of the Sorbonne, Noel Alexandre (1639-1724), led the attack in France on the Jesuits' attitude towards the Chinese rites. He published an attack upon the Jesuit position in which he endeavours to show the similarities between the Chinese ceremonies and the idolatrous rites of the Greeks and Romans' (Lach & Van Kley III, p.430). - Age-browned, otherwise fine.Cordier, BS, col. 880; Lust 883 (French ed.); Walraven 128 (French ed.); Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 237 (French ed.).
Keywords: Asia China
Title: Conformita delle cerimonie Chinesi, colla idolatria Greca, e Romana. In conferma dell' apologia de Domenicane missionari della China.
Description: Colonia, appresso gli Heredi di Cornelio d'Egmond, 1701.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, autograph title to spine. 158 pp.First published in 1700. - 'The eminent Dominican theologian of the Sorbonne, Noel Alexandre (1639-1724), led the attack in France on the Jesuits' attitude towards the Chinese rites. He published an attack upon the Jesuit position in which he endeavours to show the similarities between the Chinese ceremonies and the idolatrous rites of the Greeks and Romans' (Lach & Van Kley III, p.430). - Age-browned, otherwise fine.Cordier, BS, col. 880; Lust 883 (French ed.); Walraven 128 (French ed.); Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 237 (French ed.).
Keywords: Asia China
Price: EUR 715.00 = appr. US$ 777.10 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 30796
- Book number: 30796