Philippe Couplet: Histoire D’Une Dame Chrétienne De La Chine Ou Par Occasion Les Usages de ces Peuples, l’établissement de la Religion, les manieres des Missionnaires, & les Exercices de Pieté des nouveaux Chrétiens sont expliquez (Paris: Michallet 1688)
- Digitized: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Bibliographic reference: BS 832
- No copy listed in Wiener China-Bibliographie
Spanish version:
[Philippe Couplet:] Historia De Vna Gran Señora, Christiana De La China, Llamada Doña Candida HIù : Donde, Con La Ocasion Qve Se ofrece, se explican los vsos destos Pueblos, el establecimiento de la Religion, los procederes de los Missioneros, y los exercicios de piedad de los nuevos Christianos, y otras curiosidades, dignas de saberse / Escrita Por El R. P. Felipe Cvplet, De La Compania de Jesvs, Missionero de la China (En Madrid: En la Imprenta de Antonio Roman 1691)
- Digitized:
> Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz [without plate, without portrait]
> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10787859-7) | Google Books (Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized 30 March 2012) [without plate, without portrait]
> Google Books (Original from Universidad Complutense, Madrid, digitized 30 April 2009) [with portrait (not opened), with plate (not opened)]
> Google Books (Original from Universidad Complutense, Madrid, digitized 30 April 2009) [with portrait (not opened), with plate (? / covered)]
> Google Books (Original from National Library of the Czech Republic, digitized 20 February 2015) [without plate, without portrait]
> Google Books (Original from Klosterbibliothek Montserrat, digitized 21 June 2010) [with portrait (not opened), with plate (? / covered)] - Bibliographic reference: BS 832 f., Löwendahl 0201
- No copy listed in Wiener China-Bibliographie
Dutch version:
Philippus Couplet: Historie van eene groote, christene mevrouwe van China met naeme mevrouw Candida Hiu […], beschreven door […] Philippvs Covplet […] ende in onse Nederlandtsche taele door H. I. D. N. W. P. overgheset. (Antwerpen: inde druckerye van Knobbaert by Franciscus Muller 1694)
- Digitized: KU Leuven (Permalink to catalogue record)
Biography of Candida Xu (Xu Gandida 徐甘第大, 1607–1680), a granddaughter of Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 (1562–1633) and a devout Christian herself. Cf. the introductory remarks in: Gail King: „Candida Xu and the Growth of Christianity in China in the seventeenth century“. In: Monumenta Serica Vol. 46, (1998), pp. 49-66 (URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40727172)
Last updated August 10, 2015.