A Research on the Copies and the Author of the Philippine-Published Chinese Incunabula: Symbol of Faith

Abstract

西班牙多明我会修士托马斯•马约尔于 1607年在菲律宾出版了中文刻本《格物穷理 便览》。本文探究了该刻本目前的藏本情 况，整理并辨析有关该书作者马约尔修士的 文献，尝试对有争议的问题提出新的观点， 并结合现已发现的菲律宾中文刻本，考察文 献中提到的马约尔修士的作品。 The Spanish Dominican Thomas Mayor published his Symbol of Faith in Chinese Language (Gewu Qiongli Bianlan) in 1607 Philippines. This article studies its present copies conserved in different libraries around the world indicated in earlier reports. It will also try to bring forward some new points of view about several debatable questions on the biography and the publications of this Spanish Dominican author through a thorough study of the archives about him dating up to the beginning of the seventeenth century, as well as all the discovered Philippine-published Chinese Incunabula in the present.