lambert motte pierre (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo (101 x 176 mm). XXIV, 285, (1) pp. With one woodcut initial. Near-contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine and spine-title. All edges marbled. Second edition, rare. A fundamental handbook for missionaries to Indochina, prepared by François Pallu (d. 1684) and Pierre Lambert de la Motte (d. 1679), founding members of the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris and driving forces behind the establishment in 1665 of the Seminary of St. Joseph, the nucleus of what would become the College General, an interdiocesan seminary still active today (now in Penang, Malaysia). - The first edition was published in 1669 as a sum of Pallu's and Lambert de la Motte's preliminary mission experiences in China, Tonkin, Cochinchina and Siam. The two men saw their text in the tradition of the foundational missionaries Francis Xavier (d. 1552) and José de Acosta (d. 1600). Offering practical and spiritual guidance for seeding the Christian faith in the East, the "Instructiones" advocate a tightly reasoned model of conversion, rejecting previous missionary strategies that either expected natives to accept Christianity without complaint, as if delivered to them by an oracle, or resorted to extra-Christian means - "astrology, math, painting, the mechanical arts" - to seduce converts. - Pallu and Lambert de la Motte were two of 17 missionaries who undertook an overland journey from France to Siam (eight died in transit) during the early 1660s. In 1665 they established their mission in Juthia, Siam (now Ayutthaya, Thailand), a thriving city known as "The Venice of the East" that boasted more than a million inhabitants by the year 1700. - Exceedingly rare, only a single library copy traceable online (at the municipal library of Lyon, France). - Corners slightly rubbed; hinges starting. Occasional light foxing; ink stain to p. VII. Otherwise very well preserved. - Removed from the library of the Marist congregation in Lyon, with their stamps of ownership to title-page. Two old shelfmark labels mounted to flyleaf (one on top of the other). - Cordier, Bibl. Sinica 825. OCLC 417906408.