Rare second edition of the annual report, in the original Italian, on the circumstances and activities of the Jesuit missions in South Asia and especially the Philippines. The letter, written by Giovanni Ribera (1565-1622), the Jesuit Provincial at Manilla in the Philippines, is addressed to the governor general of the Jesuit Order, Claudio Acquaviva, in Rome. The annual reports are of great importance for the early history of the region. Like most, the present one derives from personal correspondence between Jesuit members, and was published after the letters were judiciously edited. It covers the period June 1602 to June 1603, and is dated from Manilla, 11 June 1603. After a general introduction it discusses the state of the Jesuit mission at the Collegio in Manilla, and at the residences at Zebu, Dulac, Ogmuc, Bohol, Tinagon, Cantubig, Antipolo and Silang. The first edition appeared in the same year in Rome at the printing house of Luigi Zannetti (USTC 4035438: 5 copies).
Title-page and some of the following pages stained and slightly browned, otherwise in good condition. BLC STC Italian (17th cent.), p. 454; De Backer & Sommervogel VI, col. 1767; ICCU, BVEE 038138 (4 copies); USTC 4030297 (2 of the same 4 copies); not in Robertson, Bibliography of the Philippine Islands; Leclerc.