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Bula datada de 15 de Junho de 1874. Bula "Universis orbis" reunindo, provisoriamente, à diocese de Macau as Ilhas de Hennong-Chan, Hai-nan, e parte da de Timor. Juntos se acham oito Breves das graças e poderes que os Papas costumam conceder aos Bispos, impressos - fórmula da benção apostólica, Ritos e fórmula (Bulas, mç. 61, n.º 42, 42-A a 42-K). Os Breves apresentam carimbo do anel do pescador "Pius IX Pont. Max." No transunto o selo de chapa prende os cordões encarnados da cosedura dos fólios. Corte dourado. Inclui uma cinta da 2.ª via da Bula.

This is a late sixteenth- to early eighteenth-century Portuguese colonial administrative miscellany, comprising a composite dossier of diplomatic correspondence, military reports, ecclesiastical appointments, fiscal records, judicial proceedings, and ceremonial accounts originating primarily from Lisbon, Goa, Angola, Brazil, and the Iberian Peninsula. Dated between c. 1504 and 1713 (O.S./N.S.), the document features entries referencing key figures including the Archbishop of Lisbon Dom Diogo de Sousa, the Archbishop of Braga Dom João de Sá, the Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Minas, the Count of Galveias, the Duke of Savoy, Philip II and Philip V of Spain, the Emperor Charles VI, the Duke of Lorraine, and numerous colonial administrators, bishops, and military officers across the Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch spheres. Geographically, it encompasses locations such as Lisbon, Santarém, Braga, Alcântra, Carca, Nájera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Turin, Cadiz, the Algarve, the Rhineland, Frankfurt am Main, Copenhagen, Hormuz, Ormuz, Recife, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Macau, Xiamen, and multiple sites in West and Central Africa including Luanda, Benguela, and Huíla. The text documents military campaigns, naval operations, sieges, troop movements, and intelligence on enemy forces; ecclesiastical governance, episcopal vacancies, excommunications, and liturgical ceremonies; colonial administration, land disputes, forced labour, manumission acts, and fiscal arrangements; treaty negotiations, diplomatic missions, and inter-imperial rivalries; and socio-religious practices, including syncretic invocations, ceremonial pageantry, and legal-judicial procedures. It exhibits extensive orthographic variation, multilingual code-switching (Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, Kimbundu, Kikongo, Arabic, Persian), and scribal abbreviations typical of early modern Iberian imperial record-keeping.

This abstract describes a multi-page diplomatic correspondence collection comprising letters, memoranda, and official dispatches dated between 1764 and 1766, primarily originating from London and addressed to Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the Count of Oeiras (later Marquis of Pombal), chief minister of Portugal. The principal author is Martim de Melo e Castro, Portuguese envoy in London, whose letters detail urgent diplomatic negotiations concerning perceived Spanish and French military threats to Portugal’s European territories and colonial possessions in Brazil, particularly following troop movements along the Iberian frontier and violations of Article 21 of the 1763 Treaty of Paris. Key themes include requests for British military assistance—including twelve thousand muskets, artillery, tents, and cavalry support—negotiations over the outstanding £70,000 sterling subsidy from the 1762 Anglo-Portuguese agreement, disputes concerning grain embargoes and road repairs near the frontier, and intelligence exchanges regarding troop deployments in Trás-os-Montes, Minho, and Beira. The collection also contains extensive correspondence involving Prince Charles of Mecklenburg concerning his service in the Portuguese army, stipend entitlements, regimental command, and diplomatic interventions by the British royal family, alongside ancillary material on merchant grievances, colonial administration in Nova Scotia and Goa, and financial arrangements involving the Portuguese Treasury, the Tower of London, and the National Library of Lisbon, where the document is held.

This archival document is a late 19th- or early 20th-century transcription—held at the Public Library and District Archive of Évora—of a Jesuit administrative and historical manuscript originally compiled in Macau, likely during the 17th century. It records the succession of Superiors, Provincials, Vice-Provincials, and Apostolic Visitors governing the Jesuit Province of Japan and China, as well as related missions in Macau, Cochinchina, Tonkin, Hainan, Fujian, Cambodia, Laos, Siam, and Shiab. The text details canonical procedures for appointment—including ‘viás’ (electoral successions), papal briefs, patents (*patentes*), and dispensations granted by Popes Innocent X and Alexander VII—as well as jurisdictional transitions, such as the formal separation of the Province of Japan and China from the Indian Provinces of Goa and Malabar in 1611. Key figures include Francis Xavier, Alessandro Valignano, Matteo Ricci, Nicolò Longobardo, Valentim Carvalho, Francisco da Veiga, and Alexandre de Rhodes; principal locations encompass Macau, Nagasaki, Funai, Kyoto, Beijing, Canton, Zhaoqing, Hainan, Tonkin, and Cochinchina. The document also chronicles foundational events, missionary strategies, political constraints, persecutions, shipwrecks, and administrative adaptations under colonial and East Asian imperial regimes, serving as a primary source for the institutional history of the Society of Jesus in East Asia.

This is a scholarly transcription of a 1712 historical document: *A Sincere and True Account of the Lawful Defence of the Royal Prerogatives and Privileges of the Crown of Portugal in the City of Macau*, composed by Dr Dom Félix Leal de Castro in Macau on 4 February 1712 and printed in Xiangshan. The text constitutes a formal rebuttal to an anonymous 1712 Augustinian account concerning ecclesiastical jurisdictional conflicts arising from the presence in Macau of Cardinal Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon, Patriarch of Antioch and Apostolic Legate to China. It details the protracted dispute (1705–1712) between Portuguese civil and ecclesiastical authorities—including the Bishop and Captain-General of Macau, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, and the Primate Archbishop—over the Patriarch’s claim to exercise jurisdiction in Macau without presenting papal bulls formally ratified by the Royal Council of Portugal (*Conselho Ultramarino*) or obtaining prior royal consent. Central figures include the Patriarch; Captain-General Diogo de Lino Teixeira and his successor Francisco de Mello e Castro; Bishop of Macau; Vicar General of the diocese; Prior Fray Constantino del Espíritu Santo of the Augustinian Convent; and Provincial Father Francisco Pinto of the Society of Jesus. The document records key events: the Patriarch’s 1705 arrival and restricted activities in Macau; the 1707 council of the Three Estates affirming royal prerogatives (*regalias da Coroa*); the imposition and subsequent modification of the Patriarch’s custody; the 1708–1710 expulsions and arrests of religious loyal to the Patriarch—including Augustinians and Dominicans—and the renewal of prohibitions against their convents; the 1709 royal decrees (*cédulas*) confirming the Crown’s position; the Patriarch’s death in June 1710; and the 1712 handover of the Augustinian Convent to secular clergy. All assertions are grounded in archival instruments, official correspondence, canonical procedure, and juridical reasoning rooted in the Portuguese *regalia* and papal privileges granted to the Crown.

This abstract describes a Qing dynasty administrative document—a formal dispatch (*pai xing*) issued in October 1741 (sixth year of the Qianlong reign) by the Deputy Magistrate of Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, holding an Additional Rank of First Grade. The document concerns the investigation of a theft committed against the residence of Ambitide, a foreign resident in Macau, and records procedural directives issued to the Macau *Ting* (Office of the Macau Intendant) for inquiry, evidence collection, and reporting. Key figures include Magistrate Wang of Xiangshan County—described as holding an Additional Rank of First Grade and awarded one record of meritorious service—and the Macau Foreign Headman (*Yí Mù*). The text details bureaucratic protocols including deadlines denoted as ‘Ghost Day’, requirements for sworn depositions distinguishing *qie* (theft) from *qiang* (robbery), submission of seven certified copies (*yi yang qi ben*) of the investigative dossier, and consequences for non-compliance (*gan jiu*). It further references ancillary administrative actions involving the Joint Council (*Lianzong*), official messengers (*Wen Cha*), and monetary settlements in *wén*, silver dollars (*yinyang*), and Japanese silver (*Riyin*), all situated within the jurisdictional framework of coastal Guangdong’s foreign affairs administration. The document is preserved with archival register number Qianlong 6 / 473 and exhibits physical degradation consistent with mid-Qing paper-based yamen records.

This fragmentary ecclesiastical and administrative document, originating from a Portuguese colonial context likely in Asia or Africa during the 17th century, comprises a series of missionary reports, spiritual accounts, and institutional records spanning multiple locations including Xiamen (Cinhina), Su-idê, Macau, Goa, and regions associated with the Chinese interior and coastal provinces. The text details the activities of Jesuit and other Catholic missionaries, notably Fathers Francisco Brancato, Julio Aldeni, João Adam, and Miguel Irigaut, under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocesan and Metropolitan See of China. Central themes include the administration of sacraments—particularly Holy Baptism and Confession—among local Christian communities and catechumens, efforts to combat idolatry and demonic influence, and the establishment of churches and confraternities in villages such as Ké chò, Ké ngâm, and Capba. Accounts of spiritual struggles, exorcisms, visions, and martyrdom reflect the integration of European Catholic theology with local cosmologies, while references to Mandarins, Gentiles, and political authorities illustrate the complex interplay between religious mission and imperial governance. The document also records internal Church disputes, logistical challenges due to persecution and natural calamities—including locust plagues and droughts—and the veneration of saints and relics. As a composite manuscript containing marginal annotations, seals, and archival references, it provides critical insight into the operation of Lusophone missionary networks, indigenous conversions, and the socio-religious dynamics of early modern colonial Christianity.

奏報臣屬地方春間雨澤多且米價漸增每石九錢內外不等並西洋臣聶若堅交臣上用葡萄酒已賚交天主堂轉進 具奏日期： 康熙48年04月09日 (1709-05-18) 產生者：偏沅巡撫 趙申喬 硃批內容：知道了 文件類別：奏摺 形制：摺件 尺寸：20.2x9.5x14(公分) 質材：紙 關鍵字： 天主教 出版品： 《宮中檔康熙朝奏摺》第2輯，頁154

奏為在寶坻縣訪獲天主教及提省審辦緣由（附件：奏報雨雪情形片） 具奏日期： 乾隆46年12月25日 (1782-02-07) 產生者： 署直隸總督 英廉 硃批內容：知道了 文件類別：奏摺 形制： 摺件 尺寸： 21.4×9.8(公分) 質材： 紙 附件： 附件：奏報雨雪情形片 出版品： 《宮中檔乾隆朝奏摺》第50輯，頁383

This fragmentary ecclesiastical document, tentatively dated 1743, originates from the Congregation of the Roman Church and its Inquisition, recorded at the Episcopal Palace in Schiauam Maior. It concerns the proposed appointment of Friar Francisco de Santa Rosa de Viterbo—also referred to as Francisco of Santa Casa de Virtù—as Episcopal Vicar for the East Indies, under the patronage of the King of Portugal and the Algarves. The text records his nomination following the death of D. Manuel de Jesus Maria, former Bishop of the Diocese of Mylapore, and confirms his designation as bishop without diocese (chirotonitus nullius dioecesis) of the Order of Friars Minor of the Observance. Central to the document is the ecclesiastical administration of regions including the Kingdom of Sina (or Sinan), where the city of Sanskim serves as a major provincial centre with a significant Christian population, and the Church of Saint James, which had become vacant. The narrative outlines structural challenges in missionary governance, including the absence of canonical clergy, reliance on catechists, and shortages of sacred vestments and liturgical furnishings. The document also grants special faculties, including powers to absolve reserved cases, confer plenary indulgences, and administer sacraments under specific conditions. Authority to receive episcopal consecration via a single bishop in the Indies is permitted under indult, contingent upon adherence to papal decrees, particularly those issued by Pope Clement X and reiterated in the constitution *Ex quo singulari*. The text reflects the complex interplay between papal authority, Portuguese colonial patronage (*alfarazia*), and the operational realities of Catholic mission work in 18th-century South and East Asia.