Vatican Manuscripts from the Borg.cin Fond

Currently there are 49 of the 538 signatures in the collection digitized. It is the largest of the foreign (non-Latin) language collections and reflects Stefano Borgia's interest in sending missionaries to China. The bulk of the books are printed, and two are, actually, in Japanese, Borg.cin.501, 520. The collection of Antonio Montucci (†1829) was acquired by the Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, including his hand-engraved printing blocks for Chinese. This subcollection is catalogued in Borg.cin.396.

To the right is the first page of Borg.cin.394, a letter from the court of King George III of England to the Chinese emperor. The hand-written transliterations are in the hand of Montucci himself, made when he copied the text while still in London, probably in 1804.

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. pp. 363-365

Borg.cin.12, Storia composta per modo d'instruzione a Ministri di Stato

Borg.cin.317 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.334 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.345 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.350

Borg.cin.351 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.352 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.359, Chinese-Spanish Dictionary (1705-)

Bussotti dates it to "after 1705"

Borg.cin.361 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.371 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.376 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.377

Borg.cin.381 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.392

Borg.cin.393, Dictionarium Sinense & Latinum" / 漢字西譯

from Montucci, XXIV. Includes several letters at the end

Borg.cin.394, Letter from George III to the Qianlong Emperor (c. 1804)

Annotations in the hand of Antonio Montucci. (h/t to Sven Osterkamp for the identification)

Borg.cin.395, Lexico Sinico Imperali (1812-1816)

Incipit: (f.Xr) Futuro Possessori ad rationem et usus Codicis huius aperiendos haec praemisisse Primus Possessor operae pretium duxit.

Borg.cin.398

Borg.cin.400

Borg.cin.403

Borg.cin.406, Lexicon Sinico-Latinum missionis Hispan: Cantonensis

from Montucci, XXI.

Borg.cin.407

Incipit: (f.Vr) Avvertimenti agli Studenti della Lingua Man-darina, che vorranno imparar la fu' questo Vocabolario

Borg.cin.408, Antonio Wladikin Latin-Chinese Lexicon

Contains c. 8500 characters per f.IIr

Borg.cin.411, Vocabulaire François-Chinois tiré d'un Manuscrit appartenant à M. Mathieu Raper (1811)

from Montucci, XXXVI

Borg.cin.412, Vocabulario de Letra China con la Expliceicion Castelleinci (1816)

from Montucci, XXVII

Borg.cin.420, Vocabulario Da Langua Mandarina

Borg.cin.423, P. Basilii a Glemona Vocabularium Sinico Europeum ordine alphabetico

from Montucci, XXIII

Borg.cin.424, Dictionorium Sinico-Latinum Ordine Lusitano-alphabetico Digestum

from Montucci, XXIV

Borg.cin.439 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.461, Latin-Chinese Lexicon

Incipit: A, ab, abs

Borg.cin.467 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.468 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.472, Brevis Methodus Confessionis instituendae (1682)

Borg.cin.473, Dictionarium Sinico-Lusitanum" 類纂古文字考 (Leizuan guwenzi kao) (1813)

from Montucci, XXII

Borg.cin.475, Dictionarium Sinic-Latin. Secundum Radices Sinicas Digestum

from Montucci, XX

Borg.cin.495, P. Basilii Chinese-Latin dictionary (1722)

Borg.cin.497

Borg.cin.500 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.501, Diego Collado Japanese-Spanish Lexicon (1631)

Incipit: Ano de 1631. Fr. Diego, Vocabulario de la Lengua Japona

This is the precursor to his Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium printed in Rome, 1632

Borg.cin.503, Lexicon Sinicum

Contains several other texts in both Chinese characters and Romanized

Borg.cin.507

Borg.cin.511 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.512 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.513 (Low Quality)

Borg.cin.520 (Upgraded to HQ), (1628)

A letter to the christians of Japan by Frere Diego, superior of the Fransiscans in the country. Translation into french, from the late 19th C, follows

Borg.cin.531

Borg.cin.536

Borg.cin.537

Borg.cin.538

Vatican Manuscripts from the Borgiani Cinesi/Chinese Fond