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Activity Highlights -- Exhibition of the Selected European Rare Books of the University of Macau Library (2019/04/03)

Dear All,

The “Exhibition of the Selected European Rare Books of the University of Macau Library” was opened on April 1, 2019. Twenty-two documents are displayed in this exhibition, of which two are from the 16th century, three from the 17th century, thirteen from the 18th century, and four from the 19th century before the Opium War. The contents are mainly about China in the eyes of Westerners, and Macao studies related information. The exhibits includes the 1585 original Spanish edition “Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costvmbres, del gran Reyno dela China” and the 1586 Italian edition “Dell'historia della China” by Juan González de Mendoza, “De Christiana expeditione apvd Sinas svscepta ab Societate Iesv” (1615) by Matteo Ricci, and a very rare copy of “Brachilogia de princepes” (1671) by Macao-born Frei Jacinto de Deus. 

This exhibition will be open on reservation until April 26, 2019. Please email to lib_spc@um.edu.mo for reservation.

Regards,
UM Library