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Collection of interesting Jesuit letters from Brazil, India, China and Japan (1549-1557)

[JESUITS - BRAZIL - INDIA].
Diversi avisi particolari dall'Indie di Portogallo ricevuti, dall' anno 1551. sino al 1558 dalli reverendi padri della compagnia di Giesu. Dove s'intende delli paesi, delle genti, & costumi loro, & la grande conversione di molti populi, che hanno ricevuto il lume della sante fede, & religione Christiana. Tradotti novamente dalla lingua Spagnola nella Italiana.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, and finely decorated woodcut initials in text.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, and finely decorated woodcut initials in text.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, and finely decorated woodcut initials in text.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, and finely decorated woodcut initials in text.



Venice, Michele Tramezzino, (1565). 8vo. Contemporary vellum, remnants of ties. Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, and finely decorated woodcut initials in text. (8), 286 (= 294), (2, blanks) lvs. (Collation: *8, A-Z, AA-OO8).

Collection of Jesuit missionary letters, covering the years 1551-58. After the preliminaries (pp. (1-8): title, three 'nihil obstat's, dedication to Vittoria Farnese dalla Rovere by Michele Tramezzino, and 'Tavola'), followed by the letters by Mastro Gasparo (Ormuz, 1551-2), Manuel da Nobrega (Brazil, 1552), Letters from Pernambuco, by Emanuel di Morales (India, 1551), Baldassar Nugnez (Regno di Tranancor, 1548), Henrico Enriquez (Bombay, 1548), Letters from Goa (1551), by Christophoro Ribero, Nicolao Lancilotto da Caulano (1552), Melchior Gonzalez (Cochin, 1551), Anonio Gomez (Cochin, 1550), Francisco Xavier (two letters from Japan), Francesco Perez (Malacca, 1549), Giovan d'Abra (Malucco, 1549), Baldassar Gago (1553), Melchior Nugnez (on his journey from Goa to Japan, 1554), Pietro d'Aliacena (Goa, 1554) Fernando Mendez (Malacca), Baldassar Diez (Goa, 1555), Antonio Fernandez and a letter on his death by Vincenzo Petera (1554), an extensive account on the conditions in China written to Melchior Nugnez at Malacca, Aeres Brandon (Goa 1554-56), Antonio di Quadros (Goa, 1555), Gonzalo Rodriguez (Goa, 1555), Pietro Correa (S. Vincensio, 1554), Ambrosio Perez (Brazil, 1555), Duarte di Silva (Bongo, Japan, 1555), Baldassar Gago (Firando, 1555), Melchior Nugnez (China, 1555), Luigi Frois (Malacca, 1555-56), Gonzalo di Silvera (Cochin, 1557), etc.
The letters are of great interest as the authors describe for their brothers of the Jesuit Order in Portugal the actual situation of Japan, China, Brazil, India, Goa, Ethyopia, Malacca, regardinmg the state of the mission, as well as the customs and habits of the inhabitants.
The present copy is an re-issue of the first edition, which was originally published in 1558 by the same publisher, printed in a fine italic type, and adorned with numerous woodcut initials with floral decorations. There are also issues with title-pages dated 1559 and 1565, and an issue without an impressum at the end (our copy), but all with the printer's device of Michele Tramezzino on the title, and all with the same mistakes in the foliation: (8), 1-280, 273-286 (=294).

Fair copy.- (First half with wormholes (skilfully repaired but sometimes with loss of some letters, title somewhat soiled with erased ownership's entry).       
STC Italian 349; Adams I, 108; Cordier, p. 48; Alt Japan Kat. 85; Borba de Moraes, p. 60; Bosch 26; Rodrigues 313; Palau 74650; Streit V,850; Alden-Landis 565/30; not in Lust.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Asia [Far East]  India  Japan  Jesuits  Mission 

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