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Show "'F'::‘ [ i 1 - 1 i ATHAN ASIVS KIRCHER g i 1 9 4 {1 H i B ‘ L HIE 20 i i 1 o si i ) | Wi M g : B HiLE e i ( n" B g ( ' i B itg L WHRE 1 hi i L k R14 {hr ;- " where hé rela Nov'v he thus relateth the whol circumflance in th of o diy 1 | almo Malt matt ren Alva ciet moft they the oufl tion 1 Provi fh nicat Marti Antonio Fernan ofeozur Socitty (moft excellently skilledin the CharaSlers of thi S i 15 X Seat of the Arch-Bifbop of "Cofta, for to confulf upon thefe: CharaCler with F d,tbe tye of Friendfhip any firanger fbould not be able to read thofe of the Conntrey, they might happily und rftand the Forvaign ones. Afierwards paffing by Coccino, I arrived at Grauganor th . tha f o {cn {am asfa Three years after,in tbf' Tear. 1628. there went fonte Fathers to tha Province, upo occafion of one,a Mandorine being a Chriftian, whofe name was Philip,who was goi thither 5 the Fathers by the beip of the Mandorine,ereéfed bot a Church and Houjg in the Metropolis of Siganfu, that fince onr Bleffed God who would thato fair a Memorial of a hold taken of bis Divine Law in that Countrey fhould be difcove ed, h might al'/jo be [erved, and the Keflanration of the fame F aith in§tituted inthe ,am placiz I'was granted to weto be of the firft, and 1 fancied that Manfion happy becanfe of [ceing the Monument; and when I got thither1 car'd not for an tbing elfe' I fawit and vead it , wiewed it, andread it over and over leifurely and wlnoliy an confidering its Antiquity, I wondered how it conld be fo entire .and hawe its }yara E_%erf fo clear and cleanly Engrawed Iinits niddle it bath many China CharaCler the which contain nany Naines of Priefts and Bifbops of thofe Times 5. it hath ;;m;z) others y)bz'(b then were not Rnown, becanfe they are neithzr Hebrew n r Greek ,an which thongh as for all I bear, contain the fame Names, to the end, that i percb'anc i | unto me by the ftri S 158 Page of his Hiftory, Publithed in Italian concerning the Affairs of China R S cerning the Monument B E ------- ted unto me in a familiar Conference a_ll the Obfervations that he had made con i v 1 whilft that he here remained at Rome Procuratour or ‘Provincical {i how much he was the more engage e 1 - Fa S . Th omas bis Chriftianity) 1old.wte that they were Syriack Chara&ters, an fucha werein ufe there. 'Thus Father Alvares Samedus thelawerpre An tationofth . .. whe that ther were very few that ha syiack, Let- - Syriack, Letters , at length bei.n latio of it f erfe fhe a celle the knowledge of th fent: unto Rome they came unto my hands whence I firft (if that T be not deccived) ‘gave the firft nterpretation o iy orthem an my. Prodronms Coprus; as T {hall fhew more at large anon' yet not 1 th hath affor hav ftimo " oyvithftanding I could nociobrain them all; becaufe that fome of them bein "delcribed in disjoyned Papers, peradventnre were Tranfcribed from the A .thentick Copyonly to give a certaui ipecimen or relith 5 ‘but when not long af terthe perfect exemplar of theOriginali {which alfo at this day is to be feen-i the Library of the Roman Colledge) was fent unto mey then in truth I efteeme prefe Mon my St it requifite to finith all and every part.of them in this. asa very convenient plac with a more exact Interpretation both of the Chinefian -and Chaldean GCharaGiers Father mar- . . Father Martinins -Martinii coming unto Rome aftet Samedns, did not only giv of the faid E makerh men. € anaccount.of the Monument by word of mouth, ‘but alfo relateth the mat terat large in this Ailas, Page 44. in thefe words, where treating of the Province of Xenfi ;. That, {aich he, -which maketh this Province the more Famou Jisthat molt Antient Stone Sculped partly with: Chinefian Chara@érs, conccming the IntroduGion of the Golpel -by the Succeflours of ‘the Apoftles into Chini "thereon ate Regifired the names of the Bithops and Pricfts ot that time; ‘and th Fayours and Indulgencies of the Chinefian Emperours ; ‘there is alfo containedii it a {hort, but amoft exa& and admirable explication of the Chriffian Law: compoledin a moft eloquent Chinefian Style; concerning which by Gods afliftanc I fhal], Treat more;:tullyin my {fecond De¢adé of the I:‘,pitome of the Chinefian Hifiory A A t_hOllfa and t . Alt This Stone. was found,: Anso 1625.-'when in the City Sanyan a Trenc was prepared, by, cafting upoof the Earth; for laying of the Foundation of Wall ; the Governour of the place being anon informed more certain y of it, whe Ohl 5)‘ Fat " tha Noty;t Wit |