Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- The T'ang dynasty: The Christian monument at Hsi-An -- The Tun-Huang Gloria in Excelsis deo -- Other documents from Tun-Huang -- Some allusions to Christians and Christianity from independent sources -- The Zaitun crosses and other relics -- Mar Jabalaha III and Rabban Sauma -- Extracts from Marco Polo's Description of the World -- The Christians at Chen-Chiang Fu -- The mission of the Franciscan brothers -- Christians in China under the Mongol empire, from oriental sources -- Western writers of the fourteenth century: Extracts from Odoric of Pordenone -- Extracts from The Book of the estate of the Great Kaan -- Extracts from the Chronicle of the Right Reverend John Surnamed of the Marignolli of Florence of the Order of the Minors Bishop of Bisignano…”