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Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.

Maker / Publisher:		NOLIN, J.-B.
Place & Date:		Paris, 1686
Colored:		Colored.
Size:		287 x 210 mm / 11.3 x 8.3 inches
Condition:		On large thick paper. Size of the map 224 x 210mm.

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First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces and 65 major cities, and notes the location of the discovery of the Nestorian Stele in Shaanxi Province as well as the island where St. Francis Xavier died in Southern China (Sancien or Shangchuan).
The presence of a Christian Mission is denoted by a cross next to a place name.
The printed tables underneath the map list the cities, settlements, families, temples and missionaries, etc.
The map first appeared in 1686, then was reissued without the text at the bottom of the map in Philippe Couplet's "Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae".

Philippe Couplet (1623-1693) was a Jesuit priest who entered the Society of Jesus on October 11, 1640 and was ordained on November 25, 1654. During the latter part of his education, he befriended Ferdinand Verbiest and Francois de Rougemont, with whom he would undertake his China Mission.

Couplet was inspired to undertake his mission to China after hearing a speech given by Martino Marini in Leuven in 1654. He departed for China in 1656 and arrived in 1659. He worked in the provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, Zhejiang, Nanking and Suzhou, before being exiled to Canton with most other missionaries in 1665.

In 1671, he returned to Songjiang, and later to the island of Zongming. In 1680, Couple was appointed procurator of the Chinese Vice-Province and sent to Rome.

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