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(CHINA.) Ondarza Munave, Juan Antonio de. Breve y compendyosa noticia del pasaje de Manila á Chinadel Exmo Señor Don Carlos Thomas Mailard de Tournon, Patryarcha de Antiochia, Cardenal del título de Sta. Sabina en Roma, Comisario y Visitador general apostolico de las misiones de aquel imperio que es de China, de su prisión y de su muerte, que sucedió en Macan el Domingo Pentecostes, 8 de Junio año de MDCCX. [1], 53, [9] manuscript leaves. Folio, self-wrappers, stitched; moderate wear with slight loss of text at margins of title page. Np, 1710
An account of the missionary labors and martyrdom of Cardinal Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon, who died in a Macau prison in 1710 after a controversy over the use of traditional Chinese rites in Christian practice. Followed by 7 related papal decrees and other documents, 1702-1711. The account is apparently unpublished, although another uncredited copy was offered by Vindel in his 1903 catalogue, item 2415, that copy being 133, [28] leaves and bearing a slightly different title.
