From September 2018, for preservation reasons the original Chinese printed books are not available for consultation. Researchers may access digital versions (partly available online – see the list below), and texts which have been published in facsimile

For the Chinese books in the Jap.Sin. I-IV collection, see:
Albert Chan, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue: Japonica-Sinica I-IV, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.

For additional information about this collection, with useful lists, see:
Ad Dudink, ‘The Japonica-Sinica collections I-IV in the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus: An Overview‘, Monumenta Serica 50 (2002), pp. 481-536.

Some 100 texts of the collection have been published in a facsimile edition:
Nicolas Standaert 鐘鳴旦 & Ad Dudink 杜鼎克, Yesuhui Luoma dang’anguan MingQing tianzhujiao wenxian 耶穌會羅馬檔案館明清天主教文獻 Chinese Christian Texts from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus, Taibei: Ricci Institute, 2002, 12 vols. ISBN957-9390-16-9, in total 6786 pp. >> LINK

Information about all the Christian sources from the Jap.Sin. collection can be found in the Chinese Christian Texts database (CCT-database): >> LINK

• Jap. Sin. I-22 Latina interpretatio veterrimi libri dicti 易 Y cum “Prolegomenes sur L’Y Kim”. Paper bound in one volume, European style. Anonymous and without date. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. 1-44 T’ien-chu shih-i. Matteo Ricci 1607.
• Jap. Sin. I-48a Man-wen T’ien-chu shih-i. Manchu translation of Matteo Ricci’s T’ien-chu shih. Two chuan in two volumes. Chinese bamboo paper. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-49 Chiao-yu lun. Matteo Ricci. One chuan in one volume. Chinese bamboo paper. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-52-I Chi-jen shih-p’ien . Matteo Ricci, 1694. One chuan in one volume. Two chuan in two volumes. Chinese bamboo paper. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I 53. No date of publication. [pdf]. Include:
  1. Erh-shih-wu yen by Matteo Ricci
  2. Chiao-yu lun by Matteo Ricci
  3. Sheng-shui chi yen Narrated by Sun Hsueh-shih, proofread by Chang Wen-tao
  4. Ching-chiao liu-hsing Chung-kuo pei-sung ping-hsu by the monk Ching-ching, postscript by Li Chih-tsao
  5. Hsiao-luan pu ping ming shuo by Yang T’ing-yun
• Jap. Sin. I-54 T’ien-chu sheng-chiao shih-lu. Michele Ruggieri. One chuan in one volume. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-57 Chiao-yao chieh-lueh. P. Alfonso Vagnone. Two chuan, one volume, 1615. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-58a T’ung-su ku-shih (58a 1) + Ch’en-tzu wen (58a 2). Chou Hsing-ssu, 1597. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-60 Sheng-mu hsing-shih. P. Alfonso Vagnone, 1694. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-61 Chiao-yao chieh-lueh. P. Alfonso Vagnone. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-62 Tse-sheng shih-p’ien. P. Alfonso Vagnone. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-63 Hsiu-shen hsi-hsueh. P. Alfonso Vagnone. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-64 Ch’i-chia hsi-hsueh. P. Alfonso Vagnone. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-65 T’ien-chu sheng-chiao sheng-jen hsing-shih. P. Alfonso Vagnone. 1629. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-70 Sheng-ching chih-chieh. Manuel Dias Jr. Fourteen chuan. Chinese bamboo paper in seven volumes. Published by the Catholic church of Wu-lin. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-77a T’ien-chu chiang-sheng yin-i. Giulio Aleni. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-88 Chu-chiao yao-chih. Lodovico Buglio. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-89 T’ien-hsuech ch’uan kai. Li Tsu-pai. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-105 T’ien-shen hui-k’o. Francesco Brancati. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-140 Sheng-hsiang lueh-shuo. Hsu Kuang-ch’i. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-148/148a Ping-yin hui k’o:
  1. Jap. Sin. I-148 On the question of fasting [pdf]
  2. Jap. Sin. I-148a Charms and spells [pdf]
  3. Jap. Sin. I-148b To release animals and the prohibition to kill [them] [pdf]
  4. Jap. Sin. I-148c+d Why thunderbolts strike men, animals etc. [pdf]
  5. Jap. Sin. I-148e On what kind of theory is World-honored One for the Buddha and Celestial Worthy of Prime Origin for the Way based [pdf]
  6. Jap. Sin. I-148f+g The hell of which the Buddhists speak compared with that of the orthodox teaching. [pdf]
  7. Jap. Sin. I-148h the Book of the Transformations of Wen-ch’ang [the God of Literature] [pdf]
  8. Jap. Sin. I-148i+j Reincarnation [pdf]
  9. Jap. Sin. I 148k+l Numerology [pdf]
  10. Jap. Sin. I 148m Haunting [pdf]
  11. Jap. Sin. I 148n Difference between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-159 P’i-wang. Hsu Kuang-ch’i. No date of publication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-167 Ssu-t’i ch’ien-tzu wen. Chang Chieh. Chinese bamboo paper. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-168 Tseng-pu meng-yeh ch’uan-shu. Wang Kuan-huan, Chou Ch’ing, Lu Yueh-hsiang. 1823. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-171 Hsin-k’ an ko-wu ch’iung-li lu Tomas Mayor, 1607. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-189 Hsin-pien hsi-chu-kuo t’ien-chu shih-lu Michele Ruggieri. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-190 T’ien-chu shih-lu Michele Ruggieri, 1595. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. I-207 textsManuale Ad Sacramenta Ecclesiae Ministranda. [pdf]

• Jap. Sin. II-32 Ch’ou-suan. Lo Ya-ku (Giacomo Rho). No date of pubblication. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-85-2 Shang-han chin-ching lu [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-85-4 Translation of chapter 11 of Nan-ching. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-159 Itinerand[um] Sinice factum. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-161 Ch’ih-tu chih-nan. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-162 Shih-yun. [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. II-173 Relacion sincera y verdadera de la justa defension de las Regalias y privilegios de la Corona de Portugal en la Ciudad de Macao. [pdf]

• Jap. Sin. IV-5 Joachim Bouvet:
  1. Jap. Sin. IV-5a Specimen [pdf]
  2. Jap. Sin. IV-5b Examen examinis [pdf]
  3. Jap. Sin. IV-5c Nova Demonstratio [pdf]
  4. Jap. Sin. IV-5d Collectionem hanc textuum Sinicorum [pdf]
  5. Jap. Sin. IV-5e Letters of Joachim Bouvet [pdf]
  6. Jap. Sin. IV-5f Expositio [pdf]
  7. Jap. Sin. IV-5g Animadversion [pdf]
  8. Jap. Sin. IV-5h Sapientia hieroglyphica [pdf]
• Jap. Sin. IV-7 Chung-P’u tzu-hui. [pdf]

The manuscript Philosophia sinica by Francois Noel, preserved inside the Fondo Gesuitico with signature ARSI, FG 724-4 is now available for download on Internet Archive.