The Hán–Nôm Catholic Prayer Manuscript of Philipphe Binh
The Hán–Nôm Catholic Prayer Manuscript of Philipphe Binh
The Hán–Nôm Catholic prayer manuscript collection of Philipphê Bỉnh consists of three works: (1) Admonitions to the Faithful on the Third Commandment: Attending the Mass; (2) Meditative Prayer Texts; (3) Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary. These three manuscripts were most likely composed by Philipphê Bỉnh in the early nineteenth century (ca. 1802–1810), during the initial period of his residence in Portugal, as indicated in the Borg. Tonch. collection of the Vatican Library (https://digi.vatlib.it/). Digitizing Việt Nam would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Vatican Library Digital Collections for granting permission to mirror these manuscripts on the Digitizing Việt Nam platform. Digitizing Việt Nam also extends our heartfelt thanks to scholar Nguyễn Nam, who prepared the Nôm transcription and the Quốc ngữ transliteration of the Hán–Nôm texts, for generously providing these materials. The Nôm transcription and transliteration will be made available in the near future, and we warmly welcome feedback from users and fellow scholars. We believe that broader access to these materials will be of significant value to the Catholic reader community, scholars of Hán–Nôm studies, and the wider public interested in Vietnamese Studies.