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Together with Verbiest’s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (ed. by H. Josson and L. Willaert), publ. in Brussels in 1938. It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions (due to A. Dudink), all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation. All this makes this pluri-linguistic corpus (mainly in Latin and Portuguese) to a first hand testimony of the Jesuit mission in China during the restoration from its crisis (1665-1669) to its apogee, of which many dramatic moments and aspects are revealed by the author, who was the main agent in this process.

271.5 <51> --- 929 VERBIEST, FERDINAND --- Academic collection --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 929 VERBIEST, FERDINAND Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--VERBIEST, FERDINAND --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--VERBIEST, FERDINAND --- 271.5 <51> Jezuïeten--China --- Jezuïeten--China --- Neo-Latin literature --- Verbiest, Ferdinand --- S13B/0411 --- China: Christianity--Ferdinand Verbiest