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Very early and unique reports on the Jesuit missions in India, south-east Asia, China and Japan

[JESUITS - INDIA - CHINA - JAPAN].
Nuovi avisi dell' Indie di Portogallo, ricevuti dalli reverendi padri della compagnia di Giesu, tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell' Italiana.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials.

Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials.



Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1559. 8vo. Nineteenth-century light brown polished calf, gilt double fillets along the edges of both sides with four corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's device of a 'Sibylla' on title, woodcut initials. (4), 59 lvs.

First edition of a very early and highly interesting collection of Jesuit letters, issued from India, Ethiopia and South-east Asia, written between 1556 and 1558. The collection contains nine letters from Jesuits in these regions, all of them printed here for the first time, providing the reader with a wide-ranging overview of the Jesuit overseas activities, including many interesting references to the situation in Japan and China. Many data provided by these letters are only known through this early publication of Jesuit reports.

After the title, dedication to the duchess of Urbino Vittoria Farnese dalla Rovere, and the contents, the collection consists of:
- f. 1r-14v: Letter of P. Baldassar Diaz, Malacca, India, 17 November 1556 to the Jesuits in Europe.
- f. 14v-15r: Letter written in Ormuz, 8 July 1557 to a Jesuit.
- f. 15r-30r: Letter of Luigi Frois , Goa, 30 November 1557.
- f. 30v-36v: Letter of the rector of the Jesuits at Goa, 12 December 1557.
- f. 37r-41v: Letter of Melchior Carnero, bishop of Goa, 24 December 1557.
- f. 42r-53r: Letter of Melchior Nugnez, Coccin, India, 8 January 1558.
- f. 53v-56r: Letter of P. Anrique Anriquez, Manaccari, nel regno di Travancor, 13 January 1558 to the General of the Jesuits in Rome.
- f. 56v-57v: Letter of P. Don Gonzalo, Provincial of the Jesuits in India.
- f. 57v-59r: Letter of P. Don Gonzalo, Provincial of the Jesuits in India, written in the 'cittadini di Dio', Calcutta.

Good copy.- (Some underlining, markings and marginal annotations in blue pencil and red ball-point).
Cordier, cols. 46-7; Alt-Japan-Katalog 80; JCBrown I, 203; Leclerc 3051; Borba de Moraes I, p. 59.

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

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